Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat...
by sushid on Thursday June 07, 2018 @11:04PM
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Sure it does. If the costs of these datacenter operations were extremely high (say, by a factor of 100), you bet we'd have lower bitrate for Youtube, fewer GB allowances on Office 365, Dropbox, Gmail, etc.
Conversely, if it became literally free to operate, you can imagine we'd have a higher demand for data, storage, etc.
It's like how center pivot irrigation reduced the water usage rate per acre but increased demand for water usage in various areas because costs were lowered as well.
Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat...
by adrianN on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:42AM
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edit: nevermind I can't read
Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat...
by fwdpropaganda on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @03:44AM
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You don't believe demand isn't being constrained in the way I described? So you believe that people are looking at cats on facebook, and stop because they're worried about the environmental impact of facebook's datacenters? You're joking...
Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat...
by lclarkmichalek on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @05:46AM
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FWIW, your local FB datacenter is likely powered by 100% renewable energy :)
That argument doensn't apply here: demand isn't currently being constrained by us being affraid of the environmental impact of datacenters.