computing craves growing amounts of electricity & water

By 2040 emissions from computing alone will be more than half the emissions level acceptable to keep global warming below 1.5 °C 1

we must limit the resources fed to heterogeneous systems

the version of “carbon aware computing” as currently presented, promoted, and increasingly marketed […] is not actually a solution to the environmental impact of computing. […] We cannot allow ourselves to become distracted from the central, constant question […]: is your compute’s net electricity demand reducing? 2

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  1. W. Vanderbauwhede, “Low carbon and sustainable computing,” June, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wim/low-carbon-computing/index.html [Accessed Oct. 6, 2026] ↩︎

  2. H. Smith, “The problems with carbon-aware software that everyone’s ignoring,” August, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://github.com/climateaction-tech/grid-aware-software [Accessed Oct. 6, 2026] ↩︎