Re: Irish data centers....an opportunity?

[Doug]

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

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From: "Bill Johnson" <00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>
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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.


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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.

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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)?

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gil

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