Powering Distributed Computing On Renewable Energy

1. Electricity grid instability: the blindspot in carbon-aware computing There is a lot of ongoing work in exploring ways to tie computing jobs to the times and places in the world where the electricity supply runs mostly on renewable energy. This is...

Fact check: Is Bitcoin catastrophic, insignificant or a strong net positive for the environment?

In their extreme positions, all three of these assessments are misleading, and all three contain some nuggets of truth. Bitcoin is the most visible example of hyberbolic claims both for and against, especially in the environmental arena. So what is ...

Looking back on 10 years of the Adora Foundation

Fact check: How Big Is WordPress?

I can think of marketing, economic, even historical reasons to care about the current spread of WordPress, given its prominence in the eye-wateringly vast collection of content known as the Worldwide Web. But my own concerns in this series are more i...

How big is the Worldwide Web (and where do the numbers come from)?

How many websites are there in the world? This could be considered a good quiz show question, with contestants choosing from wildly different options to animated gasps from the audience and a growing (or diminishing) cash prize at the end. Or it cou...