Ecological Impact of High-performance Computing

[Arun]

"Educators may want to reconsider teaching Python to University 
students. There are plenty environmentally friendly alternatives."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EiwghkHWkAEzbMx?format=jpg

Python is the more CO2-intensive and less efficient of the 
languages in astronomy, argues 
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.11295v1.pdf

Bit coin mining could probably the worst offender here, but who 
doesn't like money!?