This is an interesting piece by 2 people, Jonathan Koomey & Eric Masanet who appear to be experts in data center electrical usage. They point out the flaws in some analysis.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435121002117 Their analysis was also in the NY Times. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, February 11, 2023, 3:23 PM, Doug <d...@bkassociates.net> wrote: I'd love to see the raw data they based this "research" on. I have ALWAYS found, "If it sounds too good to be true, its usually is...." Doug Fuerst ------ Original Message ------ From: "Bill Johnson" <00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 11-Feb-23 13:50:52 Subject: Re: Irish data centers....an opportunity? >I don’t know, but I imagine there is more detail in the scientific study it’s >based on. I don’t have access to it. > >The study findings were published on Thursday in an article in the journal >Science. It was a collaboration of five scientists at Northwestern University, >the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an independent research firm. >The project was funded by the Department of Energy and by a grant from a >Northwestern alumnus who is an environmental philanthropist. > > >Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > >On Saturday, February 11, 2023, 1:22 PM, Paul Gilmartin ><0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 17:40:21 +0000, Bill Johnson wrote: >> ... >>The digital services churned out by the world’s computer centers are >>multiplying, but their energy use is not, thanks to cloud computing, a new >>study says. >> >> - Share on Facebook >> - Share on WhatsApp >> - Post on Twitter >> - Mail >> >Are these ranked? Actual numbers would be interesting. "Mail" surprises me. >But I mail few >resources and I don't quote attachments. In fact, I prune quotations. > >> ... >>The largest cloud data centers, sometimes the size of football fields, are >>owned and operated by big tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and >>Facebook. >> ... >>Over the years, data center electricity consumption has been a story of >>economic incentives and technology advances combining to tackle a problem. >> >Do they use: >o IBM z? >o IBM supercomputers? >o Others, such as overseas-sourced (specify)? > >-- >gil > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
