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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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