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The public sector cannot underestimate computing’s environmental impact

Open Access Government - Technology News

It’s a potentially huge blindspot for curtailing emissions, and the public sector needs to hold the tech industry more accountable for emissions produced by the infrastructure used to deploy software. Under the Paris Climate Agreement, they have pledged to cut emissions by 68% by 2030, a mere 7 years away.

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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) Global Hackathon

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI), a tech-for-good program launched in 2018, seeks to accelerate sustainability research and innovation by minimizing the cost and time required to acquire and analyze large sustainability datasets. Anyone interested in exploring the data can access it and use it without needing an AWS account.