Environment Variables

Chris Adams speaks with Tom Kerkhove of the Microsoft Azure API Management team about how thoughtful API design can reduce energy use and improve system efficiency. They discuss how API gateways, caching, throttling, and observability can cut unnecessary compute and data transfer, while also improving reliability and developer experience. The conversation shows how small architectural decisions at the API layer can have an outsized impact on cost, performance, and sustainability at scale.

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Resources:
Solar Protocol [02:33]
KEDA [04:37]
Azure API Management [10:01]
Grid-aware websites - Green Web Foundation [20:37]
Electricity Maps [23:25]
Real Time Energy and Carbon Standard for Cloud Providers [26:17]
Azure API Management | Microsoft Azure Blog [30:01]

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Anne Currie is joined by Sara Bergman to explore what the shift to greener computing really looks like in practice, using .NET and modern CPU architectures as a concrete example. They unpack why moving from traditional x64 systems to more efficient ARM-based platforms can cut costs and carbon, how runtime environments like .NET make architectural transitions easier, and why staying up to date with platforms is essential for performance, security, and sustainability. Along the way, the conversation connects DevOps, modernization, and energy efficiency into a clear message: the green shift starts with building systems that are designed to change.

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Resources:
Building Green Software [Book] [03:17]
Environment Variables Ep 115 - Real Efficiency at Scale with Sean Varley [09:06]
Environment Variables Ep 107 - Cloud Infrastructure, Efficiency and Sustainability [09:47]
RISC vs CISC - GeeksforGeeks
Microsoft .NET

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This Week in Green Software, Chris Adams and Asim Hussain round up the latest stories shaping sustainable tech. From new research on AI and energy use to policy shifts, tooling updates, and signals from the wider climate and software communities, the discussion connects the dots on what matters right now and why. It’s a fast-moving snapshot of the trends, tensions, and progress driving green software forward.

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News:
AI Energy Score v2: Refreshed Leaderboard, now with Reasoning | Hugging Face [05:57]
Digital Transformation, IT Cost Optimization & Sustainable IT Solutions | Antarctica [15:43]
Scott’s Chamberlin of NeuralWatt’s survey link on charging for AI inference by the KWh, instead of by the token, to align incentives [29:16]
Simplified European Sustainability Reporting Standards | ESG [31:10]
Climate rift opens between Amazon and rivals in row over data centre power | Financial Times [40:46]

Resources:
SCI for AI spec referencing token use | GSF [14:35]
Are these all the tokens we should be counting? Ismael Velasco’s talk at Green IO [25:57]
GitHub: System Prompts for Grok chat assistant [28:36]
Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself 'MechaHitler' | NPR [28:53]
Wow tech firms STILL need to report their revenue from the oil and gas sector, even after reporting standards have been ‘simplified’? | Chris Adams [31:19]
An E.E.D. update: Who is disclosing and who isn't ? - Green Web Foundation [34:43]
The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law - SOMO [37:27]
[Draft] ESRS E1 - Climate Change

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Host Chris Adams talks with Adam Newman and Oli Winks of Root & Branch about their new Software Carbon Intensity Web model for measuring the real carbon footprint of websites. They break down why current methods miss the mark, how their bottom-up approach captures actual energy use across servers, networks and devices, and why better measurement can lead to smarter, lower-carbon choices for teams. It’s a candid look at what it really takes to make the web greener, and the tools that can help developers get there.

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News:
Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification | GSF [00:48]
Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) For Web: Measuring energy and emissions of web applications [02:03]
Kitemill [09:32]
Cardamon | Root & Branch [12:56]
GitHub - Root-Branch/cardamon-web-model [32:09]
Green Metrics Tool | green-coding.io [43:18]
Green Software Brighton | Meetup [58:09]

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When artificial intelligence grows, so does its thirst. Chris Skipper hosts sustainability expert Valeria Salis, digging into the hidden cost of powering AI: the massive volumes of water needed to cool the data centers. From submerged servers off China’s coast to European communities pushing back on tech infrastructure, they discuss the environmental trade-offs and the push for solutions that keep innovation flowing without draining local resources.

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News:
China's HiCloud launches wind-powered underwater data center [07:21]
Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable and sustainable [24:26]
Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in Europe’s driest regions [25:49]
How datacenters are innovating with sustainability in mind [36:08]

Resources:
Green Software Italia 🌱 [03:18]
Green Software Italia | LinkedIn
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) [11:06]
Environment Variables Ep 59 | TWiGS: CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability [11:25]
Environment Variables Ep 14 | Community Clouds and Energy Islands with Dawn Nafus and Laura Watts [17:56]
Green Software Movement [35:25]
SCI for AI [41:16]
Projects | GSF [41:46]
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