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We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill [video]

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156 points xbmcuser | 2 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.397s | source
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fibers ◴[04 Sep 25 13:17 UTC] No.45126940[source]▶
I was looking into energy markets and how they work and it is truly a cluster of moving parts all along the Eastern Interconnect. The question is when is the shoe going to really drop? You can only keep prices going up on an inelastic good before something really bad happens, and this doesn't even touch climate tail risks like heat sagging tx lines across the grid.
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Covzire ◴[04 Sep 25 13:27 UTC] No.45127051[source]▶
This is a tangent, but one untapped source of energy savings that seems to be invisible to climate activists is Microsoft Windows' constant drain on resources relative to Linux and MacOS. It's shocking how energy inefficient Windows is even when it's doing absolutely nothing noticable for a user.
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1. jeffbee ◴[04 Sep 25 13:39 UTC] No.45127166[source]▶
I can pretty much guarantee you that the typical Windows desktop machine uses much less energy than the typical Linux desktop machine of similar capabilities. Linux power saving basically never works out of the box unless the user has carefully selected the platform to avoid the Linux kernel's numerous defects. By contrast every computer that comes with Windows has working energy-saving features from the factory because that's how Dell and HP get those Energy Star ratings.
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2. linuxftw ◴[04 Sep 25 13:55 UTC] No.45127325[source]▶
The average windows box is full of so much bloatware, it likely evens out.