Environment
Environmental impact
Minimal environmental impact.
- Deliberately light website. Each page is only a few tens of kilobytes, and nothing is loaded from another host apart from the spam check on the contact page.
- The application is an ordinary web stack. PHP and MariaDB run on modest hardware, with no need for a large infrastructure.
- Small models run on our own server. Where a task does not need a large model, it runs on ordinary processors on our own server rather than on graphics cards: the search behind your organisation's knowledge, and a local speech engine. Translation, and speech in some languages, use hosted services.
- The real costs centre on the language model. We continually refine the application to save on compute power.
- Less travel offsets impact. By offering an instant translation service, InMyWords can remove unnecessary travel to and from second appointments.