Sustainable by design: Innovating for zero waste | The Microsoft Cloud Blog
With our recovery partners and suppliers, we're advancing the sustainability of our cloud supply chain and driving toward our zero-waste target. Learn more.
Chat UI Energy Score - a Hugging Face Space by jdelavande
Chat with a language model that tracks and displays the energy consumption of your messages. Enter text prompts, and get detailed responses along with energy estimates converted to relatable activi...
Updated Carbon Methodology for the AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool | Amazon Web Services
Customer Carbon Footprint Tool (CCFT), launched in 2022, is a tool that helps customers track, measure, and review the carbon emissions generated from their AWS usage. The CCFT accounts for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, as defined in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, covering the full range of AWS products, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and more. The emissions are provided as Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e). Today, we are publishing three updates as part of our ongoing process to enhance the CCFT: 1) easier access to carbon emissions data through the Billing and Cost Management Data Exports service, 2) more granular carbon data at the AWS Region level, and 3) updated, independently-verified methodology.
Enquête annuelle « Pour un numérique soutenable » : l’empreinte environnementale des équipementiers de réseaux mobiles désormais évaluée, celle des opérateurs de centres de données et des opérateurs télécoms continue à augmenter
Discover how Netlight empowers your sustainability journey. From decarbonisation to sustainable business transformation, we leverage technology to create a greener future for all.
Studio Ghibli AI imagery craze brings to light the high cost of water
While millions of people around the world marvel at Studio Ghibli-style AI-generated images or impossible portraits produced by tools such as DALL-E or ...
Taking (Policy) Action to Enhance the Sustainability of AI Systems - AlgorithmWatch
With more and more resources being expended on developing and applying Artificial Intelligence technologies, it is increasingly important to understand the impact these technologies are having on the environment. Our report recommends how to make crucial information about such technologies publicly available.
On the Effectiveness of Microservices Tactics and Patterns to...
Context: Microservice-based systems have established themselves in the software industry. However, sustainability-related legislation and the growing costs of energy-hungry software increase the...
Performance web et éco-socio-conception d’un site web : deux notions complémentaires ou opposées ? : OpenStudio
Conjuguer performance web et éco-socio-conception paraît logique, pourtant de manière contre-intuitive, avoir un site éco-socio-conçu, ne signifie pas qu’il sera performant et vice-versa. Ces deux approches partagent des objectifs communs mais sont parfois en contradiction. Avec l’aide de Christophe Laffont, responsable conformité & excellence chez OpenStudio, nous allons voir que concevoir un outils web en composant avec un équilibre entre performance et frugalité n’est pas si simple.
The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom - Nature Communications
The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.
EUROPEAN GREEN DIGITAL COALITION The European Green Digital Coalition (EGDC) is an initiative of companies, supported by the European Commission and the European Parliament, based on the request of the EU Council, which aims to harness the enabling emission-reducing potential of digital solutions to all...
Osservatorio Consumo Digitale Responsabile Una vetrina di prodotti e servizi digitali socialmente utili per i cittadini. Usa il motore di ricerca o clicca sulle categorie per conoscere prodotti e serv...
Retour sur le Sommet de Paris : l’IA « pour les gens et la planète » n’est pas celle que l’on croit
L’IA durable recouvre deux concepts : une IA respectueuse de la planète et ses habitants, et une IA qui permet de préserver l’environnement. Les systèmes d’IA ne cochent pas tous les deux cases.
Understanding the environmental impact of generative AI services
divpGenerative AI (Gen-AI) represents a new stage in digital transformation through its many applications. Unfortunately, by accelerating the growth of digital technology, Gen-AI is contributing to the multiple environmental damages caused by its sector. The question of the sustainability of IT must include this new technology and its applications, by estimating its environmental impact. We propose various ways of improving the measurement of Gen-AI's environmental impact. Whether using life-cycle analysis methods or direct measurement experiments, we illustrate our methods by studying Stable Diffusion a Gen-AI image generation available as a service. By calculating the environmental costs of this Gen-AI service from end to end, we broaden our view of the impact of these technologies. We show that Gen-AI, as a service, generates an impact through the use of numerous user terminals and networks. We also show that decarbonizing the sources of electricity for these services will not be enough to solve the problem of their sustainability, due to their consumption of energy and rare metals. This consumption will inevitably raise the question of feasibility in a world of finite resources. We therefore propose our methodology as a means of measuring the impact of Gen-AI in advance. Our approach differentiates the embodied and operational impacts of Gen-AI in order to consider the sustainability of models and equipment. Such solution will provide valuable data for discussing the sustainability or otherwise of Gen-AI solutions in a more transparent and comprehensive way./p/div