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Getting my head around power factor when we talk about power usage of the internet
I was recently a technical reviewer of a paper by the Greening of Streaming folks, called “Overview of Power Factor in Streaming“, and the there’s a few takeaways that surprised me enough to want to make a note to come back to it in future (here’s the linkedIn post announcing the paper). Power factor was…
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On conflating different kinds of AI in the climate context
I’ve found myself looking for this quote 3 times this month, and LinkedIn is a real pain to use to find it, so I’m posting it here. This quote from David Rolnick, one of the founders of the non-profit Climate Change AI is a useful one to have handy, because its coming from someone with…
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What is the easier to understand way to say “building with cloud primitives?”
I’ve been following Bert Hubert on social media since coming across his posts a couple of years ago, and this weekend he asked an interesting question: “Going to the cloud’ can mean anything from renting a VM, deploying containers, or building on top of advanced (hyperscaler) cloud services (queues, buckets, customer IAM etc). Is there…
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Who is publishing sustainability reports “the right way” in Europe now that we have the CSRD?
This post dives into what ought to be possible with sustainability reporting in 2025, and is intended to provide some context for ongoing discussions about how changes to disclosure laws pan out in Europe, now that there’s a push to strip out what are seen as the most socially useful bits of them. If you’re…
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Some quick notes before diving into the Euro stack report
I’m sharing this as a British person, now living in Europe, who is currently working through reading theough the recent Euro stack report closely. I am dashing this post out, in response to a question in a private chat where an American person reading about this Euro-stack idea for the first time, very reasonably asked:…
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Why should there be a WordPress Sustainability Group?
Just like there is Umbraco Sustainability Group, and Wagtail Sustainability Group, and something related in the Drupal Community, I think it’s useful for there to be a WordPress sustainability group, who have an interest in understanding and reducing the climate impact of the project. These are the arguments I would use for it to exist,…
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Where do I find the dates of future public company filings in France and Germany?
I’m looking for open data sets of some public company data for Germany and France. And in particular I’d reallty appreciate pointers to the answers for the following question: Is there any centralised source that lists the dates of the AGMs of publicly traded companies, or when they last filed their management accounts? That is…
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An update on air quality notes at FOSDEM
About a week ago, I wrote a blog post about air quality and CO2 sensors as a way to help make more informed decisions about going into rammed devrooms when at conferences like FOSDEM. This is an update on what I’ve learned since, with links to active projects, interested devrooms, and other such goodies. First…
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How much of their energy do various countries use on datacentres?
I’m posting this here becuase I’m realise that posting things to Linkedin means finding them again is a real pain, and having a link on my own domain is helpful for coming back to. European datacentre usage This chart is from pae 27 of the Energy Consumption in Data Centres and Broadband Communication Networks in…
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Is the UK using loads of gas on the grid or not?
This was a thing that had me scratching my head when prepping a few stories for a newsletter this weekend, and I figured it might be of use to others too. In the UK, if you follow the decarbonisation of the grid, you’ll likely have noticed that the UK succeeded in getting coal off the…