The Hidden Ledger of Code: Tracking the Carbon Debt Inside Our Software
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As software scales, so does the energy it consumes and the emissions it generates. This growing footprint forms what many engineers now call carbon debt. Carbon debt is the accumulation of energy waste caused by inefficient architecture, redundant compute, or neglected cleanup.
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