birnbaum

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   by birnbaum 5y ago

   First of all thanks for your extensive answers and interest in this topic :) > There's an argument to be made that one should move loads to 1pm since then the country could increase build out of solar energy That's a very good
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   by birnbaum 5y ago

   That was not was I was trying to say: Overall, we _should_ try to shift workload towards times where the average carbon intensity is low. Statements like "energy is usually cleaner at 1pm than at 7pm because of solar power" absolu
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   by birnbaum 5y ago

   Co-author here :) Regarding your first point: You are talking about so-called marginal carbon intensity - and you are right, this would indeed be a better metric for incentivizing scheduling. Unfortunately it is extremely hard to compute (o
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   by birnbaum 5y ago

   Co-author of the paper here. Google currently only buys enough renewable energy to match their annual electricity use - their data centers do not run on 100% renewables all the time. You can read up on this here: https://www.gsta