[Technology] The Cloud. Just WOW

[Official Old Man]

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

 

[nickbrighton]

That was eye opening! Definitely worth the 5 mins or so to watch.

 

[Triggaaar]

Shut down NSC. Shut it down now!

 

[CheeseRolls]

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.

 

[Arthritic Toe]

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]

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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[Giraffe]

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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I’d vote for that.

 

[beorhthelm]

shocking revelation that computers use power, collectively they use a lot. see also heating, travel, shipping, manufacturing, agriculture.

 

[CheeseRolls]

https://cloud.google.com/sustainability
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/sustainability/operations
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/

Not perfect but we have bigger problems out there.

 

[Arthur]

'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]

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

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

'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?

"Please send all donations to "Reduce pressure on the Post Office" by cheque to the following address"

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

https://cloud.google.com/sustainability
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/sustainability/operations
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/

Not perfect but we have bigger problems out there.

ABSOLUTELY - ability to win a game of football being the most immediate!