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UNCASExt - A Systematic Computational Framework for Uncertainty Propagation and Scope Consistency in Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessments (AESA)
Erwan Ike de Bantel, Thibault Pirson, Gonzalo Puig-Samper +6
Absolute environmental sustainability assessment (AESA) has gained increasing attention in environmental research and policymaking. However, its reliability is challenged by severa…
Purer than pure: how purity reshapes the upstream materiality of the semiconductor industry
Gauthier Roussilhe, Thibault Pirson, David Bol +1
Growing attention is given to the environmental impacts of the digital sector, exacerbated by the increase of digital products and services in our globalized societies. The materia…
More than Carbon: Cradle-to-Grave environmental impacts of GenAI training on the Nvidia A100 GPU
Sophia Falk, David Ekchajzer, Thibault Pirson +5
The rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has intensified concerns about its environmental sustainability. Current assessments focus on operational carbon emissions using…
A Cradle-to-Gate Life Cycle Analysis of Bitcoin Mining Equipment Using Sphera LCA and ecoinvent Databases
Ludmila Courtillat--Piazza, Thibault Pirson, Louis Golard +1
Bitcoin mining is regularly pointed out for its massive energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions, hence contributing significantly to climate change. However, mos…
From Silicon Shield to Carbon Lock-in ? The Environmental Footprint of Electronic Components Manufacturing in Taiwan (2015-2020)
Gauthier Roussilhe, Thibault Pirson, Mathieu Xhonneux +1
Taiwan plans to rapidly increase its industrial production capacity of electronic components while concurrently setting policies for its ecological transition. Given that the islan…
Assessing the embodied carbon footprint of IoT edge devices with a bottom-up life-cycle approach
Thibault Pirson, David Bol
In upcoming years, the number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices is expected to surge up to tens of billions of physical objects. However, while the IoT is often presented as a pr…