The Uncomfortable Truth About Our Code
Here’s something we rarely talk about in stand-ups or sprint retrospectives: every single line of code we write has an environmental cost. That innocent-looking commit? It triggers builds that consume electricity. Those deployment pipelines humming away in the background? They’re burning through server resources 24/7. The AI models we’re so excited about training? They’re carbon emission factories wrapped in cutting-edge algorithms.
I’ve been working in tech for over a decade, and I’ve watched our industry transform from scrappy startups running on bare metal to cloud-first organizations spinning up resources like it’s going out of style. But here’s what kept me awake last night: we’ve created a digital ecosystem that’s environmentally unsustainable, and most of us don’t even realize it.