Pith Number

pith:BE4K2ZFT

pith:2026:BE4K2ZFT5A3VEC2HFZF3PKVLAT

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Plateau That Never Comes: When Efficiency Claims in Datacenters and AI Become Greenwashing

Christoph Becker, Dushani Perera, Eshta Bhardwaj, Harshit Gujral, Steve Easterbrook

arxiv:2606.04214 v1 · 2026-06-02 · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BE4K2ZFT5A3VEC2HFZF3PKVLAT}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-04T01:08:58.896752Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0938ad64b3e837520b472e4bb7aaab04f44cc7f32aaf696241fe0d3ab3c8193d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.04214 · arxiv_version: 2606.04214v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.04214 · pith_short_12: BE4K2ZFT5A3V · pith_short_16: BE4K2ZFT5A3VEC2H · pith_short_8: BE4K2ZFT

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BE4K2ZFT5A3VEC2HFZF3PKVLAT \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 0938ad64b3e837520b472e4bb7aaab04f44cc7f32aaf696241fe0d3ab3c8193d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d80d2992cca938aaebc4f3d0356975a36243c7658c4f2eadd17a6817c3045f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-02T21:01:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2cd2de25048d9c7ed3313958346bedd4777a93de82d8cb3a13c76390c3777b5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.04214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}