The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
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A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.
Then why isn't it used to heat 50,000 homes? Rethinking excess heat as extra heating kills the hyperscaling argument.
.... oh after reading on, it seems the data centers are too noisy and shouldn't be placed anywhere near our homes.
Very interesting read. Time to make these sensory excursions open for public to understand the clouds physical existence.