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What did the sustainability team do? I don’t mean an offense to the team members but sustainability for a software company is very niche. Unless you’re a hyper
by orochimaaru 2y ago
What did the sustainability team do? I don’t mean an offense to the team members but sustainability for a software company is very niche. Unless you’re a hyper scaler like public cloud services your impact is limited.
The whole sustainability area needs a rethink. It needs to be linked to cost of doing business (and no - not idiotic carbon taxes) and I think if you’re using public cloud services it already is. If your code is inefficient you will be hit with higher bills (I know I’m abstracting wildly but this is mostly true). If you need to lower cost/utilization write the code to do optimize.
If you own your own data centers, now that’s a very different proposition. Not sure whether Wordpress owns these - and I don’t mean renting space and racks. I mean owning the entire space.
- paulcole 2y agoFrom the article: > Varszegi said the team’s most impactful contribution to WordPress was the publication of the Sustainable Events Handbook, designed to help WordCamp organizers improve the sustainability of their events. The team was also developing a plugin to help site owners estimate the carbon footprint of their website. So the answer is: Not much.
- mmooss 2y agoWhy not carbon taxes? Those are certainly a cost. Why should I and others pay that cost of your business?