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Greg Jenner
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Public Historian. Loves comedy. Host & creator of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME (a history & comedy podcast). Author of 6 funny history books for adults & kids. Previously worked on BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19). Spurs fan, #COYS #THFC
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Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?
Data center emissions likely 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

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Sold as server consolidation raising expectations as in the classical Rumpelstiltskin tail.

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Not helping is the push by server CPUs & GPUs to be ever more powerful, Intel's latest batch now 500 watts per socket. Any savings made through server consolidation is being increasingly spent on more overall power usage with statistical data mining equivalent of trying to spin straw into gold.

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On this topic, the Washington Post recently published an article about the rapid growth of #datacenterswapo.st/3zxJhih

Our digital lives need massive data centers. What goes on inside them?
Our digital lives need massive data centers. What goes on inside them?

Equinix, which owns 264 data centers in 33 countries, offered The Washington Post a tour for a rare glimpse inside how the tech industry’s backbone works.

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Greg Jenner
@gregjenner.bsky.social
Public Historian. Loves comedy. Host & creator of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME (a history & comedy podcast). Author of 6 funny history books for adults & kids. Previously worked on BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19). Spurs fan, #COYS #THFC
3.3k followers903 following234 posts
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