Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
  • schmorp@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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    4 months ago

    A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.

    Then why isn’t it used to heat 50,000 homes? Rethinking excess heat as extra heating kills the hyperscaling argument.

    • schmorp@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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      4 months ago

      … oh after reading on, it seems the data centers are too noisy and shouldn’t be placed anywhere near our homes.