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Re:Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 by MuffinFlavored on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:43PM (#27933527)
5 Gigawatts to Kilowatts = 5000000

5000000 kilowatts / 1kW per machine = 5,000,000 machines internationally?

Re:Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 by dweekly on Sunday July 25, 2021 @10:09AM (#27949275)
Yes, and that's a conservative lower bound (their web application servers likely draw much less than a kilowatt each and constitute a healthy portion of the fleet).
Re:Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 by MuffinFlavored on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:57PM (#27950777)
Global warming wise, should society really be focusing on using paper straws or should Facebook aim to make their server code 10% more efficient?
Re:Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0 by dweekly on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:28PM (#27951606)
The good news is that electricity still costs a lot, even at scale, so there is lots of financial incentive for hyperscalars to make their datacenters and computation maximally efficient. To wit: there are a lot of people at Facebook (and Google, and Amazon, and Microsoft, and Baidu....) who work on making their server code more efficient. Small changes can result in millions of dollars a year in savings (in electricity cost, infrastructure cost, and opportunity cost in not needing to procure more servers).