The paper by @maswan and myself
"Life Cycle Analysis for Emissions of Scientific Computing Centres"
has been published!
We develop a detailed model for the LCA of (HPC) data centres, including embodied carbon, server replacement and expansion. It is also applicable to other data centres. We also share the source code.
It shows how important embodied carbon becomes when the grid has more renewables.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14650-8