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| 17 | CarbonBench | carbonbench-series | /writing/carbonbench-series | article | CarbonBench | Systems | 0 | Five essays on the hidden carbon cost of agent infrastructure. Compute carbon varies 10x by region. Renewable availability shifts hourly. Scope 3 dominates oper | 2026-04-26 22:47:41.754665+00:00 | 0 | Five essays on the hidden carbon cost of agent infrastructure. Compute carbon varies 10x by region. Renewable availability shifts hourly. Scope 3 dominates operational emissions. Temporal and geographic arbitrage changes the economics. Most model operators are not pricing any of this yet. 1. [**[The Same Model Costs 10x More Carbon in Virginia Than the Netherlands](/writing/carbonbench)**](javascript:load('writing/carbonbench.html')) The core finding: identical inference, wildly different carbon. What the data shows across 85 models, 6 providers, 9 regions. 2. [**[Scaling in the Wrong Direction](/writing/carbonbench-scaling-wrong-direction)**](javascript:load('writing/carbonbench-scaling-wrong-direction.html')) LeCun's architecture argument meets carbon data. What happens when a more efficient architecture runs on a clean grid. 3. [**[Grid Arbitrage](/writing/carbonbench-grid-arbitrage): Why Region Choice Matters More Than Model Choice**](javascript:load('writing/carbonbench-grid-arbitrage.html')) A bigger model on a clean grid beats a smaller model on a dirty grid. The free optimization nobody does. 4. [**[The 24-Hour Carbon Curve](/writing/carbonbench-time-of-day)**](javascript:load('writing/carbonbench-time-of-day.html')) Wind at 3am, gas at 6pm. Scheduling batch inference for the cleanest hours costs nothing. 5. [**[Scope 3 and the API Call You Can't See](/writing/carbonbench-scope3)**](javascript:load('writing/carbonbench-scope3.html')) Every inference call is a scope 3 emission. The cloud abstraction hides the carbon. Regulation is catching up. [carbonbench.ai](https://carbonbench.ai) |