RETINAS: Real-Time Infrastructure Accounting for Sustainability

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Introduced the RETINAS initiative and a new metric: 'real-time server fleet utilization effectiveness.' This metric measures server resource usage (compute, storage) and efficiency in near real-time to reduce emissions from embodied carbon. It applies depreciation concepts from finance to server reliability, efficiency, and useful life, integrating embodied carbon into infrastructure metrics for informed server fleet management decisions and to reduce Scope 3 emissions. The post details the metric's formula, its application through examples comparing static and dynamic accounting, and its characteristics for horizontal and vertical slicing to enable relative comparison of circularity strategies.