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Chinchilla Squeaks: Environmental and financial sustainability in tech, writing, music, and more
In this newsletter, I look at how some of the hyperscale hosts are handling sustainability, new search engines, how not to handle layoffs, reviews of new text editors, a MIDI guitar pickup, and macOS virtualisation software.
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Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral
Last week, I was in Paris speaking at an event co-located with the Green IO event, which was perfect timing for diving into the writing of my forthcoming sustainable computing book. As part of my research, it’s become clearer that many of the environmental promises of the hyperscale cloud hosts have waned in the face of the apparent demand (in every way) for generative AI. And nothing has made this clearer than Google seemingly dropping its claims to be carbon neutral 😬.
Sustainable by design: Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling
Contrary to other stories in this newsletter, Microsoft still seems serious about its carbon neutrality (or at least offsetting its sizable AI footprint). In this case, focus on water reduction.
Create and share macOS virtual machines with Orka Desktop
Recent updates to macOS brought a plethora of virtualisation tools, and in this video, I look at one that adds…
