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The internet should operate like a sunflower, servers should follow the sun. Data centers should operate on solar energy, deploying themselves at the sunrise an
by ojciecczas 5y ago
The internet should operate like a sunflower, servers should follow the sun. Data centers should operate on solar energy, deploying themselves at the sunrise and shutting down at sunset in given location.
- mro_name 5y agoshutting down datacenters is a neat idea. Know https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is...?
- El_RIDO 5y agoHere is an example of doing just that - with a nice graph of where the site is currently served from: http://solarprotocol.net/ http://solarprotocol.net/
- davegauer 5y agoI like this a lot. Or even without a distributed system, just having a server deliver varying levels of compute/bandwidth based on the position of the Sun (a forum goes text-only at sunset, starts delivering images again at sunrise, does batch processing at high noon).