We Need to Decarbonize Software: The Way We Write Software has Unappreciated Environmental Impacts

IF 2.6 4区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Spectrum Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10491388

Rina Diane Caballar

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Abstract

SOFTWARE MAY BE EATING THE WORLD, but it is also heating it. In December 2023, representatives from nearly 200 countries gathered in Dubai for COP28, the U.N.'s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. Meanwhile, COP28's website produced 3.69 grams of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) per page load, according to the website sustainability scoring tool Ecograder. That appears to be a tiny amount, but if the site gets 10,000 views each month for a year, its emissions would be a little over that of a one-way flight from San Francisco to Toronto.

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我们需要让软件去碳化：我们编写软件的方式对环境的影响尚未得到重视

软件可能正在吞噬世界，但同时也在加热世界。2023 年 12 月，来自近 200 个国家的代表齐聚迪拜，参加联合国气候变化大会 COP28，讨论降低排放的紧迫性。与此同时，根据网站可持续发展评分工具Ecograder的数据，COP28的网站每次页面加载产生3.69克二氧化碳（CO2）。这似乎是一个很小的数字，但如果该网站每月的浏览量为 1 万次，持续一年，其排放量将略高于从旧金山飞往多伦多的单程航班的排放量。

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IEEE Spectrum 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

CiteScore

2.50

自引率

0.00%

发文量

254

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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