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Scenario

How to navigate environmental guilt when your team's work contributes to data center energy consumption

Our startup team knows our AI training is burning through massive amounts of energy and we all feel sick about it but we're also trying to build something that could help with climate solutions. Every sprint planning meeting has this unspoken tension about whether we're part of the problem or working toward the solution and nobody wants to be the one to slow us down.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is caught between immediate environmental costs and potential future benefits, paralyzed by the complexity of their moral position.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Energy consumption of data centers?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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