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Well, Google does a lot more than Web... so, it's hard to tell what you are seeing in those datacenters. It could be that specifically next to where you live i
by crabbone 2y ago
Well, Google does a lot more than Web... so, it's hard to tell what you are seeing in those datacenters. It could be that specifically next to where you live is a GCP datacenter or whatever other division in Google that has nothing to do with Web (Google has its fingers in cyber-security, television, maps, cellular phones, general electronics, ML and much, much more...)
So, measuring their power consumption isn't going to indicate anything unless you know what exactly does that datacenter support.
- austin-cheney 2y agoFacebook. Its estimated at 22 million sqft.
- crabbone 2y agoIt's the same thing honestly. Facebook has a boatload of projects that have nothing to do with Web. They probably spend more on their ML stuff than any other department in terms of infrastructure / resources. At one point I ran across the statistic that said that Facebook's internal network had more IP addresses than the entire public Internet. Maybe whoever claimed that exaggerated, but all the Web stuff Facebook has to offer doesn't need even a single percent of IP addresses of the entire Internet. Also, as far as I know, Facebook has its own h/w ambitions. It builds its own h/w and equips its own datacenters with it. While this is definitely not their main business, h/w development is a lot more resource-intensive than s/w development when it comes to datcenter usage (when it's about developing datacenter h/w).
- austin-cheney 2y agoThat completely misses the point. The point is about lowering electricity consumption.
- crabbone 2y agoFor Web... If the datacenter in question isn't involved in Web at all, why would it be of any interest how much power it consumes?