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Is the carbon footprint better if I host my own RPI instead of using a cheap virtual server somewhere ? Having a Raspberry on all the time will consume some ele

• jhoelzel 4y ago
  this depends on your datacenter i would wager. If the energy of your server is green and the heat is reused, as some modern datacenters do, the only concern becomes EOL of hardware and how quickly they change it. Otherwise, yeah, shared cloud vm is always more economic than single hosted hardware of any kind.
• cientifico 4y ago
  If you use a cheap recycled server you will be running in years old computers. If we compare that to buying something (including building and transportation) I bet that RPI have higher impact.