Ecological Impact of High-performance Computing

[Abdulhaq]

On Friday, 25 September 2020 at 21:26:15 UTC, Arun wrote:
> "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!?

Here's another article on this important subject:

https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/