• Rothe@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      Stop the disingenous techbro “but you already use datacenters/yet you live in society, curious” excuse. We are talking about hyperscaler datacenters here.

      We know that the cloud uses datacenters, but they are far smaller and use less energy. Almost all new datacenters being build or being projected are huge hyperscaler datacenters, which uses a lot more water and energy than any of our previous ones.

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        15 hours ago

        And most importantly they are planned for sustainable value

        The difference now is a mad rush to add many more in a very short while, overwhelming power and water and appropriate sites. And that it’s likely a bubble, so many of that mad rush is likely to be abandoned in a few years

      • UiUiUiUiUi@piefed.nl
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        11 hours ago

        Good thing I found out that my server is hosted on an average mom-n’-pop Oracle hosting barnyard.

        P.S. whats the costs piefed.social incur monthly at your small town Hetzner server?