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[Technology] The Cloud. Just WOW



Official Old Man

Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull
Aug 27, 2011
8,540
Brighton
Where is 'the cloud'? Now you're going to say it's just banks of storage in data centres. That may be so, but these centres are now so huge they account for a huge percentage of electricity. How about this, Despacito (that annoying song) used the same amount of energy as Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Sierra Leone and the Central African Republic used in one year.
Watch this, it's interesting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-51742336/dirty-streaming-the-internet-s-big-secret
 








CheeseRolls

CheeseRolls

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jan 27, 2009
5,946
Shoreham Beach
Don't you think it was like, just a little like dumbed down?

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks-co2-emissions-have-fallen-29-per-cent-over-the-past-decade

One for the oldies.

TLDR highlights

UK 29% carbon reduction in 10 years.
Coal Power stations down to 2% of electricity generation.
Oil (vehicles are getting more efficient, but people keep buying bigger and more powerful cars) and Gas (home heating) are stubbornly not budging.

Analysis excludes carbon impact of imported goods, (including for all that manufacturing we have lost) and International flights.
 


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Arthritic Toe

Well-known member
Nov 25, 2005
2,392
Swindon
You could argue that pre-cloud, every organisation ran their own machines, but only utilised a small percentage of the capacity, resulting in huge waste. In the cloud world, everyone is sharing the same cluster of machines, with machines being switched in and out according to the demand. This is a more efficient use of resources.

Few, very large data centres is more efficient than lots of small ones.
 




Wrong-Direction

Wrong-Direction

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Mar 10, 2013
13,416
Oh bloody hell, something else to worry about now, we really need to go back in time and start living more simple lives

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beorhthelm

beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius
Jul 21, 2003
35,297
shocking revelation that computers use power, collectively they use a lot. see also heating, travel, shipping, manufacturing, agriculture.
 






Arthur

Arthur

Well-known member
Jul 8, 2003
8,561
Buxted Harbour
'Dirty Streaming: The Internet's Big Secret' will be available on BBC Three on iPlayer from Thursday 5 March 2020.......surely that is like holding an alcoholics anonymous meeting in a pub with a free bar?
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
49,921
Faversham
Wrong-Direction said:
Oh bloody hell, something else to worry about now, we really need to go back in time and start living more simple lives

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The Luddite experiment failed a long time ago. Progress and change are unstoppable. It's what we humans do :shrug:
 




Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
49,921
Faversham
Arthur said:
'Dirty Streaming: The Internet's Big Secret' will be available on BBC Three on iPlayer from Thursday 5 March 2020.......surely that is like holding an alcoholics anonymous meeting in a pub with a free bar?
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"Please send all donations to "Reduce pressure on the Post Office" by cheque to the following address" :lolol:
 




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