Host Kate Goldenring is joined by Chris Adams to explore how the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard can help companies meet new EU sustainability reporting requirements, shifting green software from best practice to audited obligation. They also discuss research on “green prompting,” showing that specific words can significantly impact AI energy use, along with new tools that reveal real-time energy consumption in AI workflows. They close by examining how rising AI demand is increasing hardware costs and disrupting the refurbished laptop market.

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• Kate Goldenring: LinkedIn | Website

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News:

• The SCI Standard: Providing the Software Emissions Data CSRD Needs | GSF [02:47]
• Green Prompting: Characterizing Prompt-driven Energy Costs of LLM Inference | Adamska et al. [29:40]
• I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore [44:30] 

Resources:

• Green Metrics Tool | green-coding.io [19:25] 
• Cardamon [19:48]
• Briefing 1 - XBRL and materiality briefing video | Chris Adams [21:18] 
• Deck 1 - XBRL and materiality 
• carbon.txt - Green Web Foundation [25:48]
• A validator for carbon.txt files, and linked documents in them · GitHub [26:51]
• Introducing our new work on carbon.txt - Green Web Foundation 
• GitHub - ml-energy/zeus: Measure and optimize the energy consumption of your AI applications! 
• We know AI can use loads of energy. So why isn't it visible at the point of use when you use it? Is it because it's just too hard to show it? | Chris Adams [34:30] 
• How to use GenAI models if you care about the energy they consume | Chris Adams 
• GitHub - Energy and Carbon Tracking for OpenCode 
• Release Guide: CO2.js v0.18 - Green Web Foundation [40:31]
• Putting things in perspective: Data center investments now on par with renewables, oil and gas [49:14]

Events:

• Sustainable AI for Climate Tech Founders (April 22, 1:00 pm PDT - San Francisco) [51:32]
• Sustainable AI (April 23, 6:00 pm CEST - Utrecht) [51:41]
• HotCarbon Workshop 

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