Open mrchrisadams opened 2 months ago
For Tim Smolcic, this paper is the one I know exploring payback period for energy saving vs embodied energy in networking:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306261916000180?via%3Dihub
There are some charts like this in the paper showing the sweet spots (or opposite of sweet spots - I guess)
There's also some work from Green Coding in Berlin exploring the same question:
Question
Meta published some really interesting new research, addressing a real problem with accounting for embodied carbon right now in digital services:
Meta's response is referred to as RETINAS: Real-Time Infrastructure Accounting for Sustainability. Details below:
Basically it allows amortising the impact of hardware over a given number of years, based on your chosen strategy for retaining them. This is somewhat like how some cloud giants changed their depreciation strategy for servers, to recognise a longer life, and spread the cost over more years, but doing it dynamically, and with carbon.
More below:
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/08/26/data-infrastructure/retinas-real-time-infrastructure-accounting-for-sustainability/
Would any of these ideas be relevant to future work in this WG?
Issue dependency with other WGs
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