Carbon Aware Computing: Next Green Breakthrough or New Greenwashing?
Too Long; Didn't Read- Running compute jobs at a time and place when the electricity grid energy mix happens to be greener is not enough to reduce computing emissions.
- To reduce their emissions, compute jobs need to run when demand is low; target stable electricity grids; and verifiably use curtailed electricity or run on genuinely additive renewable electricity.
- The environmental challenge of computing is not energy efficiency, but energy demand. Because renewable energy can only power less than 13% of global…