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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 01 2020, @12:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the send-in-the-clouds dept.

The New York Times has an interesting story:

The computer engine rooms that power the digital economy have become surprisingly energy efficient.

A new study of data centers globally found that while their computing output jumped sixfold from 2010 to 2018, their energy consumption rose only 6 percent. The scientists' findings suggest concerns that the rise of mammoth data centers would generate a surge in electricity demand and pollution have been greatly overstated.

The major force behind the improving efficiency is the shift to cloud computing. In the cloud model, businesses and individuals consume computing over the internet as services, from raw calculation and data storage to search and social networks.

There may yet be hope for data centers.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2020, @03:42PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2020, @03:42PM (#964929)

    Better speed/security/poweruse vs. SJW millenial NOT good enough for you that I put out? Ok. Obviously CRITICAL THINKING is beyond you even when I DO IT FOR YOU to think about! So, thus, it's time to ENLIGHTEN your "relaxed brain" (lol) then:

    From what I see of your kind?

    Cutting off your BALLS & "white man bad" (even though WE lend the world order & progress vs. nations that are for EONS in disarray mind you)!

    Being a LOSER WELFARE SUCKING FREAK is "GOOD" in your SHEEPLE blinded by BULLSHIT eyes.

    Fact: It seems "your kind" (& using this NEXT term VERY LOOSELY & sarcastically in your case lmao) "THINKS" socialism/communism (after BERN whose kind BURNS in furnaces & has been exiled from 100's of nations over the last 2 millenia due to their TALMUD's calling the rest of us GOYIM CATTLE which in YOUR CASE they are actually correct seeing your WEAK reply as evidence thereof for me) is GOOD!

    IT IS NOT, not @ all & how/why (in addition to seeing it FAIL even in Russia/USSR/CHINA) as it either went NEAR capitalist in both (but still w/ bents to tyranny):

    * SIMPLE EXAMPLE(s) of WHY SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM always leads to stagnation & RUIN (turning men into DEPENDENT ON CENTRAL GOV'T CONTROLLED whimps that are MORE POTATOES than MEN which IS what 'dependence' does, taking away INITIATIVE spurred by NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION):

    Ever have a "curved" grade in school? Sure where EVERYONE IS A "SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE" & NOBODY FAILS + EVERYONE 'wins'(BULLSHIT, in the end in REALITY it is where EVERYONE LOSES & HERE IS WHY when this EXTENDS to actual PHYSICAL infrastructure + scientific progress)!

    Sure, nobody fails, but then the REAL ACHIEVERS/THINKERS/WORKERS who got an A grade get LOWERED to help the WELFARE SUCKER LAZY BASTARDS not get an F - but the real workers don't GET that A due to curve... they end up w/ a B instead.. so, what happens?

    THE REAL ACHIEVERS SAY "fuck that" & THEY STOP TRYING (& they ARE the folks that RAISE THE REST OF US AND OUR OVERALL STD. OF LIFE)!

    They say "I won't work THAT hard ever again to HELP A CRIPPLE NOT FAIL which will drag the rest of us DOWN" since the INCENTIVE to ACHIEVE + GET THE JUST REWARD FOR IT, in success in ALL FORMS is REMOVED... & it indeed does, when the real achievers STOP TRYING... inevitable stagnation & eventually DESTRUCTION.

    NOT good enough?

    Studies were done where 5 yr. olds made a garden. The lazy ones got to EAT JUST AS MUCH as the ones doing the work. Even 5 yr. olds were DISGUSTED & pissed... rightfully so in RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION!

    LASTLY on "OLD"? I probably AM a LOT OLDER than you & was doing things that are of AID to myself AND OTHERS worldwide while YOU were in diapers... age IS experience & THUS, wisdom so RESPECT YOUR ELDERS BOY!

    APK

    P.S.=> Now I KNOW that CUTTING OFF YOUR BALLS & TRANNY STORY-TIME for children in school is "GOOD GROOMING" (pun intended) but you can SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASSES (which is WHERE you like it anyway but KEEP IT TO YOURSELVES & don't try POISON US with your INSANE bullshit)... apk

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2020, @05:02PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2020, @05:02PM (#964952)

    Ok ok!

    G'damn dawg you WIN! Ok? Are you happy? You didn't say it exactly, but you're RIIIIIGHT!!!!

    Can you shut up now please? You have shown the world you're the looniest one here along with some obvious-to-everyone shit.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2020, @05:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2020, @05:54PM (#964977)

      yo AC stop speaking to urself it is a bad sign

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2020, @06:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2020, @06:21PM (#964992)

      It wasn't obvious to you SJW. It's obvious you're unable to extrapolate the inevitable result of your way of life and thinking as a welfare leech. Like his curve on a grade example shows, that when those keeping the grade or quality of life up stop trying, then everyone fails and becomes like you. A relaxed brain fail. Everyone gets a D grade which is in reality an F fail for your type. That you quite clearly have experience in.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2020, @07:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 01 2020, @07:07PM (#965025)

      I see you want him silent. Why is that? You don't want to appear even stupider than you are Mr. potato head? Yes. Keep talking. Please. I want to get your goat even more too. I see you went wild down moderating him when he was up moderated initially. It is too obvious you are butt hurt and retaliating in an obvious display of it. The obvious here is that you are indeed a "relaxed brain" welfare retard who wasn't able to come up with points he did here regarding our subject and yes, your kind (losers on welfare, leeches that drag us all down to your level, living death). Hohohohoho on the relaxed brain description of you. Makes me laugh at you. You like? I do.