[New Study] GREENER principles for environmentally sustainable computational science

[NAMRATA-WOKE]

"The Green Software Foundation promotes carbon-aware coding to reduce the operational carbon footprint of the softwares used in all aspects of society. There is, however, a rebound effect to making algorithms and hardware more efficient: instead of reducing computing usage, increased efficiency encourages more analyses to be performed, which leads to a revaluation of the cost–benefit but often results in increased carbon footprints. The rebound effect is a key example of why research practice should adapt to technological advances so that they lead to carbon footprint reductions."

Also supports the importance for minimizing carbon intensity and adopting carbon-aware computing!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-023-00461-y.pdf