> I dunno, a lot of people on here use more power without noticing it, because it's on whatever cloud provider they use. Every time I push some commits, an arra

> I dunno, a lot of people on here use more power without noticing it, because it's on whatever cloud provider they use. Every time I push some commits, an array of servers spins up in an AWS datacenter somewhere to run all of my verifications and do a build. Most AWS (and generally cloud) instances are already virtualized from bigger machines. Power, heating, and cooling in these large racks is running much more efficiently than running these things in your home on dedicated compute that is only being used for your purposes. Even more efficient is using something like serverless compute or something like Cloudflare workers. While cloud compute probably is not running at low idle power, it's probably maximizing it's power utilization as much as possible. > Bigger house also means I can get an array of solar panels and become net positive. There's a lot of hidden costs associated with becoming "net positive", everything from adding more peak load during inclement events to issues associated with grid fragility. Look I don't think it's good form to roast OP on what's really standard behavior on the internet: showing off your cool digs. But I also think we should be intentional about what it is: showing off your cool digs.