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HOW GREEN IS YOUR SOFTWARE?
by Sanjay Podder, Adam Burden, Shalabh Kumar Singh, and Regina Maruca
Without doubt, software is the backbone of virtually all the intelligent solutions designed to support the environment. It’s critical, for example, in efforts to tackle deforestation and reduce emissions. In many instances, however, software is also part and parcel of a rapidly growing carbon footprint. In fact, recent and proliferating digital technologies have begun to worsen many of the environmental problems they are aimed at solving. But companies can make software an integral part of their sustainability efforts by accounting for its carbon footprint in its design, development, and deployment and by rethinking some aspects of how the ...
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