Emissions from computing are apparently higher than for air travel, and that’ll only go up in the coming decades.
“As a society we need to start treating computational resources as finite and precious, to be utilised only when necessary, and as effectively as possible. We need frugal computing: achieving our aims with less energy and material.”
@Brendanjones you’d think that market economy principles would have solved that through higher prices years ago, but the past decade, the trend has been almost exclusively to the opposite.
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Oh, you're getting that backwards: this IS the market economy principles.
People have invested in the systems as they are because they found them to be more valuable than alternatives and their own costs.
