Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity
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Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity
"An estimated 13 percent of US cloud consumption, totaling more than 3 gigawatts, comes from so-called "zombie" workloads—abandoned test environments and unused applications that continue to draw power without doing any useful work."
@gerrymcgovern 13% seems like a very low number!
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Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity
"An estimated 13 percent of US cloud consumption, totaling more than 3 gigawatts, comes from so-called "zombie" workloads—abandoned test environments and unused applications that continue to draw power without doing any useful work."
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@gerrymcgovern 13% seems like a very low number!
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Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity
"An estimated 13 percent of US cloud consumption, totaling more than 3 gigawatts, comes from so-called "zombie" workloads—abandoned test environments and unused applications that continue to draw power without doing any useful work."
@evan does this still jive with your research? Not attacking, you seem to have really good knowledge about these and I’m curious where this fits.
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@evan does this still jive with your research? Not attacking, you seem to have really good knowledge about these and I’m curious where this fits.
@emd @gerrymcgovern I've seen 4-5% of us electricity consumption
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@emd @gerrymcgovern I've seen 4-5% of us electricity consumption
@evan @gerrymcgovern right, so perhaps it’s higher now and still increasing? Or you disagree with this research?
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@evan @gerrymcgovern right, so perhaps it’s higher now and still increasing? Or you disagree with this research?
@emd @gerrymcgovern I didn't look. It doesn't sound impossible to me!
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@emd @gerrymcgovern I didn't look. It doesn't sound impossible to me!
@emd @gerrymcgovern my main concern is that people talk about AI (0.1-0.2% of global greenhouse gas emissions) as indefensible compared to other human activities like beef cultivation (10%), rice (2%), cement production (8%), or personal cars (10%).
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@emd @gerrymcgovern my main concern is that people talk about AI (0.1-0.2% of global greenhouse gas emissions) as indefensible compared to other human activities like beef cultivation (10%), rice (2%), cement production (8%), or personal cars (10%).
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Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity
"An estimated 13 percent of US cloud consumption, totaling more than 3 gigawatts, comes from so-called "zombie" workloads—abandoned test environments and unused applications that continue to draw power without doing any useful work."
@gerrymcgovern well if datacenter permits would include water treatment and solar farms and wind farms and battery storage, then it would all be fine. Because when the boom is over, the energy production will still be there and benefit everyone.
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