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Accenture, GitHub, Microsoft and ThoughtWorks Launch the GSF

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> With data centers around the world accounting for 1% of global electricity demand, and projections to consume 3-8% in the next decade, it’s imperative we address this as an industry.

> To help in that endeavor, we’re excited to announce the formation of The Green Software Foundation – a nonprofit founded by Accenture, GitHub, Microsoft and ThoughtWorks established with the Linux Foundation and the Joint Development Foundation Projects LLC to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and leading practices for building green software. The Green Software Foundation was born out of a mutual desire and need to collaborate across the software industry. Organizations with a shared commitment to sustainability and an interest in green software development principles are encouraged to join the foundation to help grow the field of green software engineering, contribute to standards for the industry, and work together to reduce the carbon emissions of software. The foundation aims to help the software industry contribute to the information and communications technology sector’s broader targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030, in line with the Paris Climate Agreement.

Here's to now hand-optimized efficient EC, SHA-256, SHA-3, and Scrypt routines due to incentives. See also The Crypto Climate Accord, which is also inspired by the Paris Agreement: https://cryptoclimate.org/

... "Thermodynamics of Computation Wiki" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18146854

Is 100% offset by PPAs always 200% Green?

From "Ask HN: What jobs can a software engineer take to tackle climate change?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20015801 :

> [ ] We should create some sort of a badge and structured data (JSONLD, RDFa, Microdata) for site headers and/or footers that lets consumers know that we're working toward '200% green' so that we can vote with our money.

>inspired by the Paris Agreement

So we’re just going to let China do the polluting? Maybe you didn’t know but the Paris Agreement exempted China from all standards.

No, under the Paris Agreement, countries set voluntary targets for themselves and regularly reassess.

And when China says it’s doing nothing everybody cheered.

TBF, the glut of [Chinese,] solar panels has significantly helped lower the cost of renewables; which is in everyone's interest.

They’re cheap because the secret ingredient is slavery and Uighur blood.

"What are you doing to help solve that problem?"

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