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Re:Researchers reached the bottom of ice sheet at -2670M aft... by Insanity on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:09PM (#36949565)
When I read that first sentence, I thought “what has cloud (software) to do with this”
Re:Researchers reached the bottom of ice sheet at -2670M aft... by Nevermark on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:59PM (#36950018)
Not series, maybe a bit serious:

Cloud computing energy use appears to be on an exponential trend driven by general trends (all things automated), with new forms of automation compounding competitive pressures (deep learning models quickly getting larger, more powerful, more useful, and more versatile in a way erasing many lines holding back past competition.)

At some point, it seems inevitable that computing usage will be a first level climate driver, regardless of how green the energy is.

Harnessing orbital solar, fission and fusion power, may solve the CO2 energy problem, without requiring us to steal the biosphere's energy needs, but will eventually create a massive waste heat energy problem.

Unless we find someway to efficiently transfer mass amounts of heat energy off of Earth.

Or we eventually limit computing on Earth, and export that to the Moon and beyond.

Re:Researchers reached the bottom of ice sheet at -2670M aft... by DiggyJohnson on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:01PM (#36951813)
I’m so ready to deploy to the EARTH-LUNAR-1 region and backup to JUP-EUROPA-1.
Re:Researchers reached the bottom of ice sheet at -2670M aft... by budgi4 on Monday July 31, 2023 @11:05PM (#36951840)
How significant a climate change factor is waste heat energy across all sources currently?
Re:Researchers reached the bottom of ice sheet at -2670M aft... by Moru on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:24AM (#36954704)
I once was told I was using the word clustering wrong (I was doing k-means, not computers).