
Environment Variables The Week in Green Software: Local AI & Lean Observability
Apr 2, 2026
32:27
Hosts Kate and Tzviya unpack the latest news This Week in Green Software, focusing on how sustainability is increasingly being integrated into everyday engineering decisions. They explore the push toward earlier measurement and accountability, the role of tooling in helping developers understand energy use, and the growing influence of policy and industry initiatives. The conversation highlights both the challenges and opportunities in making sustainability a standard part of software design, rather than an afterthought.
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News:
- Letter from the Outgoing ED of GSF [01:18]
- When is Local AI Greener than the Cloud? | Intelligent Living [12:52]
- The Green Side of Observability: Why Less Data Can Mean More Insight | DevOps.com [18:30]
- Graphics card environmental impact calculator | Hubblo [22:45]
Resources:
- Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) specification | GSF [02:07]
- SCI for AI | GSF [02:17]
- SCI for Web | GSF [02:33]
- Green Software Practitioner course | GSF [09:00]
- OnePointFive [09:37]
- GreenOps Academy | Greenpixie [09:52]
- Electricity Maps [15:15]
- Honeycomb Refinery [20:21]
- More than Carbon: Cradle-to-Grave environmental impacts of GenAI training on the Nvidia A100 GPU [25:47]
- From FLOPs to Footprints: The Resource Cost of Artificial Intelligence [26:12]
- Dr. Sasha Luccioni's Award [27:14]
Events:
- Hobby Projects to Green Production Systems (March 31 at 6:00 pm - Budapest) [29:46]
- PowerBI Dashboard (April 7 at 6:30 pm CEST - Karlsruhe - Hybrid) [30:17]
- Green IO Singapore (April 14-15) [30:51]
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