On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 at 12:07, Manuel Traut <[email protected]> wrote:
> > running AI inference of Debian CI jobs. You can see a recent video
> > looking at one of such datacenters here: https://youtu.be/MQeJYEN_lrg
>
> And all the components needed to build this datacenter also created no
> harm?
> End-of-life of the datacenter and recycling all those materials also
> creates no harm?
>
If you actually watch the video, you will see a *LOT* of recycling going on
there. And massive use of *very* simple and easy to recycle manufacturing.
In the end datacenters are less wasteful than your private phone or laptop
or home lab because scale makes such things more efficient. It is *far*
easier to pick up from one place and recycle a hundred thousand
motherboards gaining back 99% of the copper and other metals inside than to
gather that material from millions of household all over the place. We, as
individual computer geeks, contribute far more to the e-waste problem than
a datacenter.
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Best regards,
Aigars Mahinovs
