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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://hachyderm.io/users/kellogh/statuses/112110795961459170">Tim Kellogg (kellogh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 12:09:40 JST</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@kellogh" title="kellogh@hachyderm.io"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/60362-48-20221208180440.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Tim Kellogg" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Tim Kellogg</a></section><article><p>Let’s be honest, if you’re a software engineer, you know where all this compute and power consumption is going. While it’s popular to blame <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LLMs" rel="tag">#LLMs</a>, y’all know how much is wasted on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/docker" rel="tag">#docker</a>, microservices, overscaled <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/kubernetes" rel="tag">#kubernetes</a>, spark/databricks and other unnecessary big data tech. It’s long past time we’re honest with the public about how much our practices are hurting the climate, and stop looking for scapegoats <a href="https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2839019#notice-5636945">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-03-19T12:09:40+09:00" title="Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 12:09:40 JST">about 8 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@kellogh/112110795961459170" rel="external" title="Sent from hachyderm.io via ActivityPub">hachyderm.io</a></span></span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@kellogh/112110795961459170">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu</div><h5><a href="https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/">The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud</a></h5><div> from <span>@mitpress</span></div></header><div>Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Tim Kellogg (kellogh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 12:09:40 JST Tim Kellogg
Let’s be honest, if you’re a software engineer, you know where all this compute and power consumption is going. While it’s popular to blame #LLMs, y’all know how much is wasted on #docker, microservices, overscaled #kubernetes, spark/databricks and other unnecessary big data tech. It’s long past time we’re honest with the public about how much our practices are hurting the climate, and stop looking for scapegoats https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/
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  Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.

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