Permacomputing

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Computing to support life on Earth

Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

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Servers Get a Second Life for Sustainability - As data centers proliferate, researchers look for ways to limit environmental impact (spectrum.ieee.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/permacomputing@slrpnk.net

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This is essentially a glorified article about not needing the latest and greatest, and limiting shortcomings with the right combinations of used components and software. Nothing groundbreaking, but hopefully represents a slowly shifting zeitgeist into saving energy and carbon emissions. The Researchers estimate their methods would reduce global emissions by 0.2%.

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