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eh... consumption will always grow, but probably half of those coal stations will close - presumably the owner/operators will be able to find new sources of income
Energy consumption per capital was flat from 1970 to 2000, and has decreased from then.
https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T01.07#/?f=M&start=200001
Crazy to look at that CO2 per capita chart and see that we're lower now than any time since the 40s at least.
About 25% down from 2008.
I'm a layman in the subject but energy consumption tends to be diminishing on all fronts as technology becomes more efficient.
i was thinking more along the lines of data centers/server farms
Again, just a layman, but had a person in a thread tell me they ran an Opteron for some time and they noticed how warm the house was kept with that machine working.
After being put to rest, replaced by more modern machines, the eletric bill dropped, even when the heating was added in.
Was that me?
If so I moved to low power i5s and run super cool and quiet without any loss of functionality or slowdowns. And my energy bill is much more pleasant now! A few generations of CPUs and it's worth just replacing old gear if you can, especially enterprise stuff.
Well isn't the world a small place!
Only critique I have is: you should have kept to AMD.
The mid-range at the time for AMD re: motherboard or CPU wasn't spectacular, and I wanted dual Intel GBE on the motherboard, otherwise I totally would have (my actual desktop machine is AMD)
Just messing with you. I'm a self confessed AMD fanboy but I respect some will want to try other hardware or have specific wants or needs.
Nonetheless: AMD is the best!
Opterons were so bad though, and it's still difficult to get an Epyc machine for cheap.
The designs for those have really improved too, also a lot of the stuff the internet has made obsolete was very energy intensive so when just looking at the whole picture numbers there can still be a trend down