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mr.w0bb1t (w0bb1t@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Jun-2025 14:21:59 JST mr.w0bb1t

Data center #energy scam · We must calculate the true & total long-term costs to our environment—to the water, the air, the soil, the biodiversity, the climate.
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1. The way data centers measure electrical energy usage is through what is called Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). The closer the PUE is to 1, the more ‘efficient’ the data center is. Let us park for a moment the awkward truth that improvements in technological efficiency have rarely if ever led to overall reductions in energy use—quite the total opposite, actually. Park that nasty thought for a moment. Here’s another nasty thought to park. Much of the PUE efficiency gains were achieved by massively increasing the use of water for cooling. Another way was by churning through computer servers and creating mountains of e-waste. Energy use was “being reduced by just throwing more material at the problem,” Johann Boedecker, founder of the circular economy consultancy Pentatonic, told the Financial Times. Data centers became a prime source of e-waste as they dumped perfectly good working servers, chasing that new server with that slightest of slight gains in energy efficiency. Again, we see how vital it is not to allow the focus to be on a single metric. We must calculate the true and total long-term costs to our environment—to the water, the air, the soil, the biodiversity, the climate.
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