Most cloud sustainability tools are built for sustainability officers. They pull three-month-old billing data, run it through a proprietary model, and produce a PDF that engineers never see. By the time you know your us-east-1 cluster emits twice as much as us-west-2 would have, it's been running for a quarter. The architecture is locked in. The carbon is already burnt. The only moment you can act
[Day 1] DGX Spark Came Home — I Made It Draw a Cat So... what is "local LLM" again? Honestly, I'm still figuring out what "local LLM" even means. But somehow, through a series of decisions I won't fully justify here, I ended up buying an NVIDIA DGX Spark — and now it's sitting in my house. DGX Spark: NVIDIA's "supercomputer for the home" — a small but seriously expensive box with the