ecoCompute - The biggest engineering conference on sustainability in hardware & software

Will 2026 be the year of local AI use in coding, without subscription costs? And can we somehow use it to get a handle on environmental damage – or will it become even more inefficient and energy-inte...

This dual presentation introduces life cycle assessment for software and offers a perspective on how environmental claims for digital services can be standardised. Bosch has developed a comprehensive method for determining the ecological footprint of software products, systems and services throughout their entire life cycle based on existing standards and best practices. They also have applied it to some of their products and present qualitative results. In parallel, Öko-Institut has developed a method in the research project eco:digit for assessing software in shared IT infrastructures. For example, in the cloud, in virtual machines or in software containers. For this purpose, allocation rules have been developed to distribute the total hardware requirements across individual software applications. The approaches presented are currently being incorporated into the standardisation process, which will then enable transparent and uniformly calculated environmental impact statements.

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Introducing the ecoCompute Community Discourse! You might be wondering: Why another community? There are already so many great spaces out there like the Green Software Foundation, ClimateAction.tech...

The landscape provides an overview of the green software tool ecosystem

The growth of datacenters goes exponential and it consumes lots of resources.

This week I went to EcoCompute 2025, Berlin. An amazing event all about sustainable ICT in very broad sense: from coding, to hardware and from AI to datacenter cooling. My hosting label Halvar is sustainable from a-z and therefore it is important to share knowledge and stay up to date of things happening in the […]