Mr. Santiago Fontanarrosa does not propose a return to the pre-digital age. He is not a Luddite. Instead, he is a modernist with a conscience. He envisions a future where software has a "carbon budget" just as it has a memory budget. He champions the rise of —design templates that prioritize energy savings as a primary metric.
Perhaps Fontanarrosa’s most original contribution is his theory of . He argues that data is not inert; it is heavy. Moving a terabyte of information from a server in Ireland to a user in Australia requires energy at every router, switch, and repeater along the way. mr. santiago fontanarrosa green software engineering
By treating energy as a finite resource within the coding process, Fontanarrosa is helping to build a digital economy that supports, rather than undermines, global climate goals. His influence serves as a roadmap for tech companies looking to navigate the transition to a net-zero future. Instead, he is a modernist with a conscience
Scheduling non-urgent workloads to run when the local power grid is supplied by the highest percentage of renewable energy. he works to establish universal standards
: As an active member of the Green Software Foundation , he works to establish universal standards, such as the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification , to measure software emissions. The Principles of Green Software Engineering