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Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem

Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem

I. Embodied Carbon Recently, embodied carbon, defined as the Scope 3 GHG emissions that arise from the manufacturing processes that lead to computing electronics, has become popular as an architectural metric for sustainability.  If you are considering it or using it,...

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