[CydeWeys]

> I've never profiled world-wide carbon production but something tells me if you wanted to carbon optimise you'd be better served trying to take cars off the road and planes out of the sky.

We're getting a bit off-topic here, but the #1 target by far in reducing greenhouse emissions is power generation. In transportation it's significantly trickier to replace petrol-based fuels (especially for airplanes), but it's straightforward enough in power plants. And crucially, you can convert all the petrol-powered vehicles to EVs that you want, but if the electricity they're getting from the wall is still provided by burning petroleum then you haven't actually done that much.

Luckily, computation can for the most part be located anywhere (exactly the opposite of transportation), and thus you have a lot of data centers near hydro and other renewable sources so that they can use the cheapest green power available.

[confuseshrink]

> We're getting a bit off-topic here, but the #1 target by far in reducing greenhouse emissions is power generation.

I readily admit I don't know any of the numbers associated with carbon production and my comment was solely based on the one GPU vs car figure presented in the aforementioned paper.