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in datacenters power allocation is a fixed cost.
by himata4113 8mo ago
in datacenters power allocation is a fixed cost.
- eru 8mo agoIf you are big enough, you can and will negotiate.
- himata4113 8mo agothe datacenter has a fixed cost for power, industrial power is not consumer power especially at large scale. Scale really kicks in if you own your power plant (ex: hydro, wind, solar).
- eru 8mo agoData centres are more complicated than that. For an example, even if you have a fixed power budget at the data centre level, you still have opportunity costs: if you turn some unused GPUs off, you can run other things hotter.