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grantcodes / sustainable-web-starter

A simple starter to help create sustainable, eco-friendly websites
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Research things to avoid #9

Open grantcodes opened 1 month ago

grantcodes commented 1 month ago

Along with the starter kit itself I'd like to include some recommendations on what to avoid and why.

Examples of this that I can think of already are:

Crypto
Due to its excess power use
AI
Due to its excess power use
3rd party scripts
Because of large http calls, privacy issues and energy use

I want to be careful with wording to not recommend that others never use these technologies, but that they are only used after thoughtful consideration of their drawbacks.

w4rner commented 1 month ago

Love that you're taking on these future threats of datacenter energy demand like my Musical capstone, which Nature mag predicts will be 8%+ of global electric demand by 2030, tech industry as a whole being over a fifth!

If you want to be more discerning you could suggest "allowable" more ethical efforts: Crypto - PoS like Ethereum (1/100th of PoW elec). AI - local-run like GPT4All or more transparent like HuggingFace 3rd party - lightweight/privacy designed like SimpleAnalytics