James Crowley

Digging into the details of NSW’s new data centre guidelines that were announced today.

A bumper year so far for data centre commitments = a bumper year for fossil gas, from the same hyperscalers supposedly committed to rapid decarbonisation.

Leaked documents have exposed how Chevron and ExxonMobil, have executed a calculated campaign to massively dilute or scrap the EU’s flagship Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).

If you’re using pnpm as a package manager and dependabot for security alerts – be aware, if you’re running pnpm v9, dependabot will no longer flag required updates for components with vulnerabilities, as it doesn’t support the v9 lock file.

Have you ever forked a GitHub repo?

Amazon has been marking their own homework and giving themselves 10/10 in their latest sustainability report.

You may seen the recent announcement from Microsoft that Xbox is now the first ‘carbon aware’ games console – reducing carbon footprint by optimizing updates and downloads to run at a time when the console can use the most renewable energy.

Any organisation more than a few years old typically ends up with a pretty diverse set of technology in use, changing over many years.

The landscape of climate-friendly investments has shifted hugely since I wrote my first blog on the subject 2 years ago.

In a recent project I encountered a need for an AWS Lambda function to receive messages from a Kinesis stream, and forward them on to an IoT pipeline in another ‘target’ AWS account.