Remember when we were told to conserve energy with energy efficient appliances and such? We were told to conserve water with low flow showers and toilets? Guess where those savings all went.
Silver lining:
It’s a bubble and not sustainable…even from an economical view.
Many of those data centers will be ruins before the end of the decade because there never was an actual use for them to begin with.
Like my stupid Creative T40 computer speakers that auto shut off after a few minutes of silence to save a handful of millijoules, then annoyingly take 4 seconds to power back up.
I had a wireless mouse that did that shit, it was infuriating. You’d move it and it would take like 0,5 second to register you moving it, causing it to move with a delay every single time you hadn’t touched the mouse for like 10 seconds.
Remember when we were told to conserve energy with energy efficient appliances and such? We were told to conserve water with low flow showers and toilets? Guess where those savings all went.
Silver lining: It’s a bubble and not sustainable…even from an economical view. Many of those data centers will be ruins before the end of the decade because there never was an actual use for them to begin with.
Nah, they’ll be repurposed for cloud computing.
Like my stupid Creative T40 computer speakers that auto shut off after a few minutes of silence to save a handful of millijoules, then annoyingly take 4 seconds to power back up.
No way to turn off that “feature”.
I had a wireless mouse that did that shit, it was infuriating. You’d move it and it would take like 0,5 second to register you moving it, causing it to move with a delay every single time you hadn’t touched the mouse for like 10 seconds.