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So you'd rather have others contribute 5% than working yourself on getting these other 2.5% that you can do something about? Btw, given the inherent thermodyna
by gmueckl 6y ago
So you'd rather have others contribute 5% than working yourself on getting these other 2.5% that you can do something about?
Btw, given the inherent thermodynamic inefficiencies in active datacenter cooling I'd be surprised if we can't do better than 25%.
- Arcuru 6y agoThe total overhead, including cooling, is only ~10% for Google datacenters [0], and the other cloud providers are likely similar. Efficiency gains of that scale probably need to come from somewhere else. [0] https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency
- kortilla 6y agoYes, the 2.5% number is best case for a complete upheaval of how things work right now. That’s a waste of effort societally speaking when literally 100% of electric generation can be replaced with renewable energy.