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The alternatives would seem to be "data center powered by non-renewable energy" and "no data center", no?
by jbroman 6y ago
The alternatives would seem to be "data center powered by non-renewable energy" and "no data center", no?
- Skunkleton 6y agoOr perhaps a bunch of less efficient small data centers.
- graeme 6y agoHow would that help? Reducing the number of data centers doesn’t reduce the demand for them.
- drchickensalad 6y agoEfficiency of scale is very real for datacenters
- graeme 6y agoWhoops I wrote this backwards. I meant to write reducing the size of datacenters. The proposal I replied to would probably increase data center energy usage on balance.
- sargun 6y agoA lot of technologies only work “at scale”. Some things can be scaled down, but I don’t think that’s trivial.
- epistasis 6y agoSadly, the question is "are they part of my tribe or not?" I see it over and over again in my city in coastal California. Car dealership, gas stations? A-OK, they help me out. Instead let's go do a climate protest of a bank, an Amazon office, and a software as a service company, since they have Big Oil as clients. And let's conveniently forget the massive oil and car infrastructure from our city design, which creates huge amounts of demand for emissions. As long as the enemy is one- or two-degrees away in terms of connection, it's a target to be attacked.