The amount of marketing material 2013-2020 (and ongoing probably) talking about how mega scale datacentres were so much greener than collocation or non cloud was significant.
“We‘ll host your shit with a PUE of 1.05 and it’ll be all solar and hydro”
There’s no reason we can’t force them to meet this.
Don’t allow them to break ground on the datacenter until after they build renewable power plants that can produce 200% the daily energy requirements of the data center.
We can make data centers not just green, but beneficial to the grid.
The amount of marketing material 2013-2020 (and ongoing probably) talking about how mega scale datacentres were so much greener than collocation or non cloud was significant.
“We‘ll host your shit with a PUE of 1.05 and it’ll be all solar and hydro”
Reality is gas and coal and PUE 2
There’s no reason we can’t force them to meet this.
Don’t allow them to break ground on the datacenter until after they build renewable power plants that can produce 200% the daily energy requirements of the data center.
We can make data centers not just green, but beneficial to the grid.