The Times — CTOs get to grips with new software sustainability spec
by Asim Hussain · 31 October 2024
But engineers are brilliant. They're building infrastructure that can figure out the most unbelievable solutions to problems. If we show them how to measure sustainability, they will figure it out. I'm a firm believer that if we solve the measurement problem, the rest will follow.
— Asim Hussain
The Times ran a feature on CTOs adopting the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) specification, the ISO-certified standard the Green Software Foundation built for measuring software’s carbon emissions. I made the case that you can’t cut what you can’t count: there had never really been a KPI for sustainability in software, so teams kept talking about reducing emissions without ever being able to prove how much any change would save. Solve the measurement problem, I argued, and brilliant engineers will do the rest.