“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclear power plant creates”

Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by Skunkleton on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:41PM (#24702626)

Or perhaps a bunch of less efficient small data centers.

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Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by graeme on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:44PM (#24702653)

How would that help? Reducing the number of data centers doesn’t reduce the demand for them.

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Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by drchickensalad on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:46PM (#24702669)

Efficiency of scale is very real for datacenters

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Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by graeme on Thursday October 08, 2020 @09:56AM (#24719116)

Whoops I wrote this backwards. I meant to write reducing the size of datacenters.

The proposal I replied to would probably increase data center energy usage on balance.

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Re:“A server hall draws as much electricity as half a nuclea... by sargun on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:03PM (#24704254)

A lot of technologies only work “at scale”. Some things can be scaled down, but I don’t think that’s trivial.

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