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Isn't the most expensive thing power and cooling? IE. if you replace the 5 year old Xeons with new ultra-efficient ARM chips, wouldn't that save you more power
by aurareturn 3y ago
Isn't the most expensive thing power and cooling?
IE. if you replace the 5 year old Xeons with new ultra-efficient ARM chips, wouldn't that save you more power and cooling over x amount of time?
Genuine question.
- kaliszad 3y agoAccording to James Hamilton who is a distinguished engineer at AWS no: https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/09/overall-data-center-costs/ https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/09/overall-data-cente... and https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/12/annual-fully-burdened-cost-of-power/ https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/12/annual-fully-burde... And you can watch him say it too: https://youtu.be/kHW-ayt_Urk?si=DKyw0-Pk-dhU5zFG&t=323 https://youtu.be/kHW-ayt_Urk?si=DKyw0-Pk-dhU5zFG&t=323
- aurareturn 3y agoThe first link refers to "servers" - not "CPUs". I assume "servers" contains everything server hardware related, not just the CPU.