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@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Ana Rodrigues [too deleted her Spotify account](https://ohhelloana.blog/goodbye-
I wonder how we can achieve what Natalia's talk was all about---_working towards a greener world from behind the keyboard_, or, in other words, _frugal computing_. I mean, I know what the concept is about, and it's quite obvious what needs to be done (less!), but in a world where everything needs to be upscaled instead of downscaled, who's going to listen to the few voices swimming against the current?
At my current client, we're leveraging Kubernetes' isolated throwaway-pod system to auto-upscale and deploy clusters. Distributed---that is, _cloud-based_---enterprise solutions are without a single doubt less environmental friendly than their classic client-server counterparts: modern software is often upscaled too fast, and mordern software is needlessly complex/distributed across multiple energy consumers. Environmentalism apparently is never a key decisive part of the engineering puzzle.
At my current client, we're leveraging Kubernetes' isolated throwaway-pod system to auto-upscale and deploy clusters. Distributed---that is, _cloud-based_---enterprise solutions are without a single doubt less environmental friendly than their classic client-server counterparts: modern software is often upscaled too fast, and modern software is needlessly complex/distributed across multiple energy consumers. Environmentalism apparently is never a key decisive part of the engineering puzzle.
The most conspicuous example is of course (yet again) generative AI. A few days ago, Nature published an article proclaiming that [Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring---and mostly secret](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x):