A media company encodes user-uploaded videos. Live event replays (15% of volume) must be available within 2 hours. Archival uploads (85% of volume) have no deadline. The company operates in Region A (coal-heavy, 550 gCO₂e/kWh, flat profile) and can access Region B (mixed grid, 100 to 350 gCO₂e/kWh). Each video is 500 megabytes and takes 4 minutes to transfer between regions. For the archival uploads, which strategy would produce larger carbon savings?

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Spatial shifting to Region B, because Region A’s flat intensity profile means temporal shifting offers almost no benefit, while Region B has substantially lower intensity

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Temporal shifting within Region B after first transferring all videos there permanently

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Temporal shifting within Region A, because avoiding data transfer overhead is always preferable

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Neither strategy, because video encoding is an inflexible workload that cannot be shifted

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