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Re:How cloud computing impacts the environment by shrubble on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:48AM (#21803340)
Since we don't know for sure what the capacity utilization of say AWS is, we do not know if they are running physical servers which are lightly loaded or not.

It might be that AWS runs a tight ship or it might be that they have entire aisles of servers spun up but which run for only 1 hour per day.

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Re:How cloud computing impacts the environment by Symbiote on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:20PM (#21805488)
I would think they would turn off computers they don't need, since that is a huge saving on power and cooling.

They presumably can predict when they need to be turned on again, ready for use.

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