GreenOps Is FinOps With a Second Bill: Carbon-Aware Scheduling in Practice
Most of us learned to think about cloud workloads in terms of one bill: the dollar cost. There is a second bill arriving, and it is denominated in c…
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Most of us learned to think about cloud workloads in terms of one bill: the dollar cost. There is a second bill arriving, and it is denominated in c…
I have a Threadripper workstation with two RTX A6000s in my home lab — a machine I'm proud of and slightly afraid of, wattage-wise. A few weeks ago…
In June the UN asked every major AI company to publish its water footprint. Most still haven’t. So I built the version that does. Ask ChatGPT a ques…
There is a drawer in most mobile teams' offices. Mine had fourteen phones in it. Two iPhones were frozen on old iOS versions with updates blocked, b…
Google tries balancing AI data center emissions with clean energy efforts.
NVIDIA has proposed a liquid-cooling design for AI data centers that it says can eliminate virtually all on-site water consumption for chip cooling,…
Every time you ask a chatbot to draft an email, something physical happens a long way away. In a windowless shed the size of a cathedral, thousands…
TL;DR A cluster of discarded smartphones can match the cost and performance profile of cloud server instances for a defined, bounded class of worklo…
I’m excited to share that BioCyclic was selected as a winning project at HackAmerica. BioCyclic started with a question: What if waste wasn’t the en…
A few years ago I built an electronic search warrant system for a state law enforcement agency. Paper process, courthouse logistics, hours of waitin…
In standard CRUD apps, if a user updates their profile name, you overwrite the database row. No big deal. But in CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Repo…
AI is no longer a side experiment. It is already part of products, workflows, and day-to-day operations. So the question is not whether companies sh…
The EU's Digital Product Passport (DPP) requirement is moving from regulatory text to technical reality. Under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Product…
Most cloud sustainability tools are built for sustainability officers. They pull three-month-old billing data, run it through a proprietary model, a…
Your team just shipped an ML inference endpoint. Stakeholders are asking uncomfortable questions about environmental impact. Someone forwards a scar…