Environment Variables The Week in Green Software: Tokens, Antarctica and SCI for AI
Dec 18, 2025
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This Week in Green Software, Chris Adams and Asim Hussain round up the latest stories shaping sustainable tech. From new research on AI and energy use to policy shifts, tooling updates, and signals from the wider climate and software communities, the discussion connects the dots on what matters right now and why. It’s a fast-moving snapshot of the trends, tensions, and progress driving green software forward.
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News:
- AI Energy Score v2: Refreshed Leaderboard, now with Reasoning | Hugging Face [05:57]
- Digital Transformation, IT Cost Optimization & Sustainable IT Solutions | Antarctica [15:43]
- Scott’s Chamberlin of NeuralWatt’s survey link on charging for AI inference by the KWh, instead of by the token, to align incentives [29:16]
- Simplified European Sustainability Reporting Standards | ESG [31:10]
- Climate rift opens between Amazon and rivals in row over data centre power | Financial Times [40:46]
Resources:
- SCI for AI spec referencing token use | GSF [14:35]
- Are these all the tokens we should be counting? Ismael Velasco’s talk at Green IO [25:57]
- GitHub: System Prompts for Grok chat assistant [28:36]
- Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself 'MechaHitler' | NPR [28:53]
- Wow tech firms STILL need to report their revenue from the oil and gas sector, even after reporting standards have been ‘simplified’? | Chris Adams [31:19]
- An E.E.D. update: Who is disclosing and who isn't ? - Green Web Foundation [34:43]
- The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law - SOMO [37:27]
- [Draft] ESRS E1 - Climate Change
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