Principles of Green Software Engineering with Marco Valtas
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The Correlation Between Cost and Emission
All of these have a fudge factor built in right like that is not a direct correlation and now we're going to an even more indirect correlation if i'm using more electricity here and it's in a region that has a higher carbon footprint. If you move from the united states to europe you can cut your emissions considerably by moving regions but you're going to raise your cost. That actually breaks the argument like oh cost if i cut my costs i cut my emissions no it doesn't work like that so don't aim for that try to get the real carbon emission factor that you have on your application which is why cost stands.
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