Sustainability APIs and making APIs sustainable
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Recommends hosting on Google Cloud (claims 100% electricity matching and decarbonize by 2030) rather than waiting on vague AWS timelines, and using scale to zero and regional scheduling based on grid intensity from services like electricity map and co2 signal. Cites the internet as ~3.7% of global emissions with traffic set to double by 2025, so design APIs with sparse fieldsets, strong HTTP caching, and HTTP/2/3 instead of huge compound payloads; use tree-planting APIs (ecology) or Stripe’s 1% funding for offsets.
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