jkinney1992 - Slashdot User

Comment this is stupid (Score 2) 66

by jkinney1992 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:37PM (#62254451) Attached to: Time-Shifted Computing Could Slash Data Center Energy Costs By Up To 30%

The ENERGY cost of a calculation is the same. Only the $$ amount is changed. It's not a battery. It's just buying cheaper power. Doesn't mention the additional storage costs of the cached data - ram? SSD? Spinning disk? Spit into a long copy loop over global fiber and really bung thing up? This is stupid.

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