The electricity cost is not neglible- I ran a service that had multiples of $10M in marginal electricity spend (IE, servers running at 100% utilization, consumi

The electricity cost is not neglible- I ran a service that had multiples of $10M in marginal electricity spend (IE, servers running at 100% utilization, consuming a significantly higher fraction than when idle, or partly idle). Ultimately, the scientific discoveries weren't worth the cost, so we shut the service down. $10M is about what Google would spend to get a publication in a top-tier journal. But google's internal pricing and costs don't look anything like what people cite for external costs; it's more like a state-supported economy with some extremely rich oligarch-run profit centers that feed all the various cottage industries.