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Fair enough, but why isn’t every business/industry subject to this? Maybe all data centers, farmers, etc should have to provide detailed reporting on the energ
by bequanna 3y ago
Fair enough, but why isn’t every business/industry subject to this?
Maybe all data centers, farmers, etc should have to provide detailed reporting on the energy they use.
- shagie 3y agohttps://eta.lbl.gov/publications/united-states-data-center-energy https://eta.lbl.gov/publications/united-states-data-center-e... ( 3.5 MB pdf for the full report https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/lbnl-1005775_v2.pdf https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/lbnl-10... ) https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/data-centers-and-servers https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/data-centers-and-serve... https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-google-microsoft-green-clouds-and-hyperscale-data-centers/ https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-google-microsoft-green-cl... They do / have.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoI imagine in general the data is already provided by the power company. The issue here is overlap between general data center power usage or residential power usage and crypto mining power usage, which isn’t as easy for the power company to discern.
- unethical_ban 3y agoFarmers should be subject to monitoring on disproportionate use of vital resources. Such as alfalfa farms that are a backdoor to export US groundwater to China.
- bequanna 3y agoGroundwater is regulated at the state level, correct?
- unethical_ban 3y agoI believe so. I was speaking generally.