Carbon-Aware Compute
The same model call costs 10x more carbon depending on where and when you run it. This thread follows the CarbonBench research from measurement to arbitrage to invisible externalities.
Reading Path
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CarbonBench: measuring what nobody was measuring
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The CarbonBench project: tools and methodology
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The 24-hour carbon curve: temporal patterns in grid intensity
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Grid arbitrage: region choice matters more than model choice
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The same model costs 10x more carbon in Virginia than the Netherlands
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Scaling in the wrong direction: when more compute makes things worse
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Scope 3: the invisible carbon in every API call