CarbonRunner has closed down
- Nobody cares
- Building environmental based products is hard because nobody really cares. People care about money, they don't seem to care about environmental savings, even if they're faster
- The cost of switching is too high
- Switching services takes a lot of mental energy, it requires due-diligence, plenty of testing and teams that want to embrace it. Going back to point #1, software developers, on the whole, do not care about carbon savings, even if it would have been the easiest thing to swap over their CI jobs. Software developers do not have to think about the carbon emissions of each function they write.
- AI makes CI look cute
- People keep building datacenters on cheap land, in hot places with scarce water rather than in cold places with plenty of water and low populations. In the AI world a few milliseconds makes no difference. These datacenters are build in places typically run on coal and gas rather than on renewables.
- Sorry world!
- Sorry we couldn't make the internet a greener place in 2025.