Technical debt is carbon debt
Green IT series — Article 2/4 One day, an IT department is asked to measure the carbon footprint of its application portfolio. The request is legitimate, the sponsor is solid, the deadline is regulatory. And that is when it emerges that the number is out of reach. Not because the method is missing — because the data it would have to be applied to was bulk-updated some years ago, according to a rule nobody remembers the content of. ...