Standardize a single comparable carbon metric per unit of software work
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Every tool in this space estimates differently, so numbers are not comparable across teams or vendors. A shared specification expresses software carbon as a rate — emissions per functional unit such as a request, user, or training run — so results can be compared and tracked over
Green Software Foundation (a Linux Foundation project) · Global
The Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) specification reached ISO accreditation as ISO/IEC 21031:2024 in Q1 2024. It defines software carbon as a rate: SCI = (E × I) + M per functional unit R, using a rate rather than a tot…
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