More than 272 million new laptops are manufactured every year, making the IT industry responsible for as much greenhouse gas pollution as the entire airline industry. This equates to the IT industry contributing 2% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Internet usage continues to rise, with more people using mobiles and tablets in their everyday … What Is The Carbon Footprint Of A Laptop? Read More »
Estimating the environmental impact of Generative-AI services using an LCA-based methodology
Generative AI (Gen-AI) represents a major growth potential for the digital industry, a new stage in digital transformation through its many applications. Unfortunately, by accelerating the growth of digital technology, Gen-AI is contributing to the significant and multiple environmental damage caused by its sector. The question of the sustainability of IT must include this new technology and its applications, by measuring its environmental impact. To best respond to this challenge, 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 full 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. Such estimates will provide valuable data for discussing the sustainability or otherwise of Gen-AI solutions in a more transparent and comprehensive way. We intend to help this discussion by differentiating in our approach between the embodied and operational impacts of Gen-AI. In this way, we can consider the sustainability of models, as we already do for equipment.
State of Readiness - Sustainability in Digital Advertising Report - IAB Europe
Sustainability is now a key focus for the digital advertising industry. Last year, it was estimated that a typical ad campaign emitted around 5.4 tons of CO2, with a programmatic ad impression producing around one gram of Co2 emissions. When the number of ad impressions transacted on a regular basis…
Announcing the (proposed) Technology Carbon Standard
We're excited to announce a proposed standard for assessing technology-related carbon emissions – an approach to classifying an organisation's technology footprint in a way that enables consistent analysis and benchmarking of the carbon impact, aligned with the GHG protocol.
Tumblr and WordPress posts will reportedly be used for OpenAI and Midjourney training
Tumblr and WordPress are reportedly set to strike deals to sell user data to artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Midjourney. The platforms’ parent company, Automattic, is nearing completion of an agreement to provide data to help train the AI companies’ models.
Parlons de valeur — Boris Schapira — We Love Speed 2023
Les meilleures pratiques en matière de performances web sont consensuelles et largement acceptées, mais comment les valoriser d'un point de vue commercial ?J...
Understanding memory leaks in Node.js apps - LogRocket Blog
Due to their effects on performance, it's critical to understand how memory leaks in your Node.js apps occur, how to debug them, and how to prevent them.
Reporting requirements on the energy performance and sustainability of data centres for the Energy Efficiency Directive. Task A report, Options for a reporting scheme for data centres - Publications Office of the EU
L’accompagnement des schémas d’accessibilité en intelligence collective (partie 2 sur 2) - Temesis
Suite de l’article l’accompagnement des schémas d’accessibilité en intelligence collective (partie 1 sur 2).
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En quoi sont modifiés les processus de production numérique et la gestion …
[TeleCoop] Article blog + Déclaration d’écoconception - HackMD
L’écoconception numérique continue à se développer en France, notamment portée par le nouveau réglement général d’écoconception de services numériques (RGESN) développé au sein de l’État. Cette pratique consiste à se demander quoi faire pour réduire la charge environnementale (émissions de gaz à effet de serre, consommation d’énergie, d’eau, etc.) d’un site web et de son usage. Nous avons maintenant une certaine expérience du sujet puisque nous explorons à la fois en théorie et en pratique depuis 5 ans toutes ces questions. La refonte de Telecoop s’inscrit d’ailleurs dans la continuité de celle pour Commown avec Derek Salmon. Dans cette étude de cas, nous allons tâcher d’appliquer ce fameux RGESN qui se distingue par 8 grands axes : la stratégie, les spécifications, l’architecture, l’UX/UI, les contenus, le front-end, le back-end, l’hébergement. Nous allons reprendre point par point chacun de ces éléments.
