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Green Software Foundation's Software Carbon Intensity Spec Becomes ISO Standard

by wbeckler on 4/29/24, 9:20 PM with 18 comments

  • by sparkie on 4/30/24, 2:33 AM

    Green Software: 217KiB html & 377KiB js to display <4 Kib of text.
  • by jeffbee on 4/29/24, 11:26 PM

    Why do we need such a thing? Operating cost is proportional to energy, carbon emissions are also proportional to energy. Making your information systems cost less also makes them emit less carbon. The information industry has a clear and direct economic incentive to reduce carbon intensity, and all large operators do catalog and reduce GHG emissions.
  • by debacle on 4/29/24, 11:50 PM

    A friend of mine joked a few years ago that one should invent "green computing" to fleece unsuspecting Fortune 500s and NGOs.

    Well...

  • by userbinator on 4/30/24, 12:11 AM

    How about starting with getting rid of all the bloated web-based crap...

    I'm strongly against inefficient software for different reasons, but if stuff like this can have an effect beyond the virtue-signaling bureaucracy it's likely to become instead, maybe it's a good thing.

  • by loongloong on 4/30/24, 2:05 AM

    If this takes off... "What is your R" can join the rest of the famous lines beginning with "What is your..." :)
  • by slicktux on 4/30/24, 3:45 AM

    Wow! This is very interesting!
  • by trollerator23 on 4/30/24, 12:39 AM

    Ridiculous.