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New API spec proposal adds environmental impact metadata

The final installment of the Impact Receipt series introduces IRM/0.1, a proposed open API specification. This proposal aims to integrate metadata concerning energy consumption, carbon emissions, and water usage into API calls. A key tenet of IRM/0.1 is its strict policy against fabricating data; if a value is unavailable, it will be explicitly stated as such, rather than being assigned a zero value. AI

IMPACT Could enable more transparent tracking of AI model resource consumption.

RANK_REASON The item describes a proposal for an open API specification, which falls under research and development in the tech space. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.4]

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New API spec proposal adds environmental impact metadata

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · CarbonLayer ·

    The Impact Receipt series finale is live on DEV.to: IRM/0.1 — a proposal to add impact metadata (energy, carbon, water) to an open API specification, provenance

    The Impact Receipt series finale is live on DEV.to: IRM/0.1 — a proposal to add impact metadata (energy, carbon, water) to an open API specification, provenance mandatory, and one hard rule: unknown is not zero. If a value doesn't exist, the receipt says unavailable. It never inv…