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Do you really believe hundreds of millions of dollars a year was spent on electricity to keep mail servers running in the 80s or are you just trying to make the
by sanswork 11y ago
Do you really believe hundreds of millions of dollars a year was spent on electricity to keep mail servers running in the 80s or are you just trying to make the Bitcoin = early email argument in a really bad way?
- CyberDildonics 11y agoDo you really believe hundreds of millions of dollars of electricity has been spent on bitcoin mining?
- sanswork 11y agoYes, do you not?
- grubles 11y agoHow any millions of dollars worth of electricity has been spent on storing instagram selfies? That is the more important question.
- sanswork 11y ago3 years ago they had "100+" AWS instances(so knowing when ops guys use 100+ I'm guessing like 125 tops) so thats what like a handful of racks for ~100 million users. So not much for the number of users they support would be the answer I guess.
- mpyne 11y agoSomehow I suspect that Instagram manages to handle more than 2.7 photos per second, and without each individual photo costing $10 to handle on top of it all. Even a bubble sort will eventually get you a sorted list, but there's a reason we don't actually use it in practice.
- namecast 11y agoDo you really believe that it didn't turn into billions over the years? Seriously, add up the billions upon billions we've spent as an industry (in terms of $/KwH delivered to all the datacenters across the world) over the past, say, twenty years, and bitcoin looks downright anemic in comparison. [1] You might not like that people are choosing to spend money on electric for BTC, but if they weren't, I imagine that juice would just be spent on serving up pics of cute cats with a side of advertising and tracking. Be thankful we found something slightly smarter to do with it. [1] http://www.nrdc.org/energy/data-center-efficiency-assessment.asp http://www.nrdc.org/energy/data-center-efficiency-assessment... - 13 billion a year for power to U.S datacenters, according to the NRDC. Slap a moving average on that, account for non-US usage, and scale it back twenty years to the launch of Netscape Navigator and the subsequent rise of colocation, and we're talking more money spent on electricity for the Interweb than most nation states annual GDP.
- sanswork 11y agoYou just imagined I said something I didn't then made an entire post arguing against that imaginary claim.