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Re:How cloud computing impacts the environment by alex_young on Monday December 16, 2019 @10:59AM (#21803992)
If you run your workloads in AWS us-west-2 or GCP us-west1 you're running on hydroelectric energy produced at the Columbia River.

These regions are also really inexpensive due to this fact.

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Re:How cloud computing impacts the environment by jeanregisser on Monday December 16, 2019 @02:55PM (#21806525)
Interesting thanks! Do you know about other locations like us-central1 for instance?
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