• Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    That is just commercial electricity use. The issue is about what to do with spare power which appears sporadically, without warning. It wouldn’t be efficient or really possible to run a server farm which only switches on when power is cheap, the main power draw is cooling which is required 24/7.