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Yay!!!! I feel like a kid in a candy store. lol!
I am loving how well-researched the data is in this talk
i am nothing if not EXTREMELY OBSESSED WITH DETAILS 😂
An incredibly useful talk - I'm glad for the focus on our responsibility regarding the true costs of data. Awesome job, @vaidehijoshi !! 🚀
Wow, excellent talk! Thank you.
Ah! I have that byte sized sticker!
Awesome talk, never really thought about this even as I was working with databases. Companies must be held to a standard of using alternative and clean sources of energy, and programmers should be made more aware of their decisions!
Agreed! And we as the creators of technology can hopefully influence companies in the right direction :)
Brilliant talk @vaidehijoshi - really gives pause for thought, both for the tech sector, but in any sector and all of our personal lives. The time series chart showing year on year % consumption was really quite scary.
Thank you so much! I put so much work into this talk, so hearing feedback like your comment makes me feel all warm and happy inside! ✨
Intriguing talk. 20% of projected demand by end of decade !!! Definitely be thinking about it.
That's a very informative and interesting talk! I had no idea that servers are so costly!
Thanks for sharing this talk! I love that you were so informative, and also hopeful about what we can do to improve this and be better as developers. :)
I love this talk, it's a unique perspective on the tech industry as a whole!
I was wondering about this as I study for my cloud exam. Thanks for making this talk!
This is amazing! I haven't thought about any of this before. Thanks for giving this talk, @vaidehijoshi !
This is a great talk thankyou! I never thought about how data affects our climate.
Being new to dev of any kind this was an amazing talk! I never considered where data is stored! Thank you for putting this into perspective and creating a resource page!
@vaidehijoshi Awesome topic, fascinating presentation, thank you!
Another great talk about computing and climate change by Nabil Hassein: deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-has...
Use them to heat homes in Sweden!
As a Swede, I approve of this suggestion.
Turns out that Sweden has already done this! 😉 Check out this article.
😺 Yes! Thank you for posting the article.
Hi Vaidehi! 👋
Did you find the researching the energy usage of data centers come pretty easily, or did you have to go down rabbit holes because maybe the companies aren't so transparent about this?
It was easy in a sense because the work done in the Paul + Anne's whitepaper was immensely helpful! But, it's also just extremely hard to find data round this, which made it hard. So, all in all, I knew where to start, but it was hard to get data and concrete statements from certain providers (especially Alibaba!).
Wow, 20% of projected energy. Surprising.
How soon do you think data centers will produce their own energy, rather than buying offsets?
I would be surprised if this happens, since it requires a lot of your own infrastructure set up! But maybe it will, who knows. I think the more likely scenario is that private companies start providing "green electricity" alternatives (but I also don't know how hard that would be to do from a legal perspective 😉)!
This is super interesting.
I read about a man that kept hearing a noise, non-stop, that ended up being the data center near him.
What about the redundant storage?