Moving to a green cloud doesn't make your code efficient.
Moving workloads to a provider with clean power is often treated as job done. But clean electricity is limited, market-based claims don't change the physical grid at a given hour, and waste still costs money and hardware.
The Green Software Foundation points out that moving to the cloud does not cut emissions by itself. GreenCode keeps advice like this in mind in its work.
GreenCode helps tackle this by measuring reductions in real terms and showing owners where capacity can be retired, so the headroom efficiency creates is taken out of the system rather than filled again. More on this.
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