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The thing that gets me about it is the very real physical cost of all this cloud waste. The big cloud providers have clear cut thousands of acres in Ohio, Nort
by dopylitty 4y ago
The thing that gets me about it is the very real physical cost of all this cloud waste.
The big cloud providers have clear cut thousands of acres in Ohio, Northern VA, and elsewhere to build their huge windowless concrete bunkers in support of this delusion of unlimited scale.
Hopefully as the monetary costs become clear their growth will be reversed and these bunkers can be torn down
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoFor what it's worth, large providers will always need datacenters. But perhaps datacenters run by public cloud providers today will be sold off to larger businesses running their own infrastructure someday at a discount. Most of the infrastructure itself all will age out in five or ten years, and would've been replaced either way. Heck, datacenters in Virginia are likely to end up being sold directly to the federal government.
- adamsb6 4y agoThe big cloud providers are likely packing machines more densely and powering them more efficiently than alternatives like colos.
- spookthesunset 4y agoMuch more than efficient. You think AWS is getting the same CPU normal civilians get? No way dude. Those guys are big enough that they can get custom hardware just for their specific needs. They’re cooling systems, power systems, everything is way more efficient. And they are big enough they can afford to measure every single metric that matters and optimize every one.
- ilyt 4y agoThey ain't going to be unused lmao. If migration happen they will just stop building new ones or have to compete harder on pricing.