Posts tagged #green-software on Dynamo Geeks: 3 posts from the community, most useful first.
small thing that worked: we added an estimated kWh line next to build time in our CI summary. nobody asked for it. two weeks later people were competing to make it smaller and our slowest test job lost 40% of its runtime.
Our product shifts EV charging to the hours when the grid is cleaner, so naturally people on my team asked whether we do the same with our own batch jobs. We do now. Here is what I learned, including where the gains are smaller than the conference talks suggest. The basic idea Electricity is not equally clean every hour. When wind and solar are high, the grid mix has a lower carbon intensity (grams of CO2 per kWh).…
