Don’t forget to set you AC to 80 because the grid can’t handle the load lol. That’s exactly why this info is important, ecological solutions are somehow always trusted on individuals when the vast majority of the issue lies with corporations.
Comment on Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months agoLots of people were just yelling the grid can’t handle more load like for checking cars while Google adds a countries worth of power use with AI.
David_Eight@lemmy.world 2 months ago
iopq@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those corporations are serving users, they wouldn’t need all that power if billions weren’t using their services
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
lol yeah whatever. keep shilling.
iopq@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Again, users actually use it
David_Eight@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And I’m using my AC, we’re both using power. How many times has the government told one of these companies to use less power because the grid can’t handle the strain their servers put on it?
And it’s not like these companies aren’t herding people toward these cloud services. A few weeks ago my Google Cloud storage was maxed out so I wanted to delete some photos/videos off their cloud while keeping them on my phone. Legit couldn’t figure out how to do that and just ended up deleting stuff permanently.
Jako301@feddit.de 2 months ago
Google builds entire datacenters with their own transformers and power lines, if not their own powerplants. You plug these datacenters directly into the high voltage networks that don’t have big capacity problems.
The low voltage grids in residential areas on the other hand were build as cheap as possible, so increasing the load by 20% is already too much for most of them.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago