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Discussion on: Climate-friendly software: don't fight the wrong battle

 
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Thomas Broyer • Edited

Actually, I had thought about writing “energy efficiency and/of server-side code” but found it harder to read; the idea was to convey “energy efficiency of server-side code, and server-side code” (for the other things like optimizing for speed). I went for the simpler wording as this was just the introduction and I would touch about energy efficiency later on anyway 🤷

Wrt network usage: it does have an impact, but (to my knowledge) more on the client device than on the network infrastructure. A bigger impact probably of not containing our usage of the network is to push it too far so bigger infrastructure has to be deployed.