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by kodah
1064 days ago
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> This also means that fewer resources (electricity) are consumed Most servers in the world use a constant amount of electricity, regardless of load. Generally the way to make DCs more green is to build them around a renewable plan with batteries (that they already need). Save for the fact that the whole thing is made of rare earth metals and lead, and you've got yourself something pretty green. |
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That seems unlikely. Even if you disable frequency scaling, hlt uses less energy than a full pipeline of avx. Disks use more energy when reading or writing than idle (although for spinning disks, if they're not idle enough to spin down, the difference isn't that much)
Datacenters do tend to have a lot of batteries, but the runtime expectation is pretty small, 5ish minutes takes a lot of batteries and is enough for the onsite backup generator to start amd warm up. It's been a while; maybe those aren't lead acid anymore, but they used to be. Stationary, weight doesn't matter, volume isn't super important, cost is important, leads towards lead acid, IMHO.