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but what about the environmental impact?!?
by dinobones 4y ago
but what about the environmental impact?!?
- subtract-smiles 4y agoHonestly probably less than all the showers you took in the same amount of time.
- imglorp 4y agoThe economic impact is not negligible, even if it does come out of the GCP PR budget: about $360k. Yada yada idle servers, but what could all that idle compute be used for to benefit humanity?
- stolenmerch 4y agoNot quite sure how to calculate it, but a n2-highmem-128 instance running at near peak for 24 hours surely uses more electricity than the energy required to heat a dozen or two gallons of water per day.
- DoctorOW 4y agoSure but Google Cloud is carbon neutral and nearing literal zero levels of carbon emissions https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/clean-energy-projects-begin-to-power-google-data-centers https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/clean-en...
- frankchn 4y ago64 cores and close to 1 TB of RAM will probably consume not more than 2.5 kW or so based on available TDP/power consumption figures. In 24 hours it consumes about the same amount of energy (2.5kW * 24h = 60 kWh) as charging a Model 3 LR's battery from 0 to 75%. So definitely more than heating up two dozen gallons of water even to boiling temperature (8 kWh), but still within the realm of household consumption with EVs.
- solveit 4y agoWhen I am king I will make it illegal to loudly worry about environmental impact (or anything else) without providing an order of magnitude estimate for the size of the problem. You don't even have to be right, just take five seconds to conjure a vaguely plausible number.
- jason_s 4y agoponders environmental impact of cat videos
- HillBates 4y ago