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Compute isn’t cheap. And by cheap, I’m not speaking about the monetary cost, but the cost to the planet. The emissions from cloud computing already surpassed the airline industry, as outlined in this issues’ research paper. A single data centre can consume the [energy required to power 50,000 homes](https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/). Not mentioning the noise pollution, [water scarcity](https://theconversation.com/we-are-ignoring-the-true-cost-of-water-guzzling-data-centres-167750) and the hugely negative implications of [training AI models](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/generative-ai-is-cool-but-lets-not-forget-its-human-and-environmental-costs/).
The frugal and sustainable approach lends itself perfectly both to web performance and the environmental movement. While we build more, add more, process more, we should be asking: is this really needed and what is the cost?
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Karolina
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