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by graeme 2083 days ago
How would that help? Reducing the number of data centers doesn’t reduce the demand for them.
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drchickensalad 2083 days ago
Efficiency of scale is very real for datacenters
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graeme 2081 days ago
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.

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sargun 2083 days ago
A lot of technologies only work “at scale”. Some things can be scaled down, but I don’t think that’s trivial.
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