[Skunkleton]

Or perhaps a bunch of less efficient small data centers.

[graeme]

How would that help? Reducing the number of data centers doesn’t reduce the demand for them.

[drchickensalad]

Efficiency of scale is very real for datacenters

[graeme]

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.

[sargun]

A lot of technologies only work “at scale”. Some things can be scaled down, but I don’t think that’s trivial.