Re:Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate r...
by hueving on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @09:32AM
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True, but the vast majority of cloud computing is still just VMs.
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Re:Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate r...
by jononor on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @09:57AM
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Yes, for now. The trend is (and has been) towards more and more elasticity. And since there are economic incentives on both platform provider and buyer side, I believe this will continue.
It is somewhat predicated on tooling and programming models continuing to improve alongside. Because for many smaller projects/businesses, compute costs are dwarfed by engineering costs.