Looking at this as an environmental problem makes some sense. I used to rent cheap hosted servers and moved to virtualized systems like AWS, Azure, and AppEngine partially because of environmental impact and partially out of convenience.
We need staging servers and redundant backups so getting really high utilization is not possible but I hope to see a lot of improvement.
The big companies seem to be doing things better. At Google, I had a bit of angst running 10k processor jobs but they do use solar, set up data centers near hydro electric sources, etc. Same as Amazon, Microsoft, etc.
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Looking at this as an environmental problem makes some sense. I used to rent cheap hosted servers and moved to virtualized systems like AWS, Azure, and AppEngine partially because of environmental impact and partially out of convenience.
We need staging servers and redundant backups so getting really high utilization is not possible but I hope to see a lot of improvement.
The big companies seem to be doing things better. At Google, I had a bit of angst running 10k processor jobs but they do use solar, set up data centers near hydro electric sources, etc. Same as Amazon, Microsoft, etc.