• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    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

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      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.