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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 , y’all know how much is wasted on , microservices, overscaled , 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 thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the

The MIT Press Reader · The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the CloudAnthropologist 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.