@rra do you have experience with this? If you did such a calculation for another datacenter, any data you can share? I can't seem to find documents older than 2018 (that would cover 4 of the 7 buildings they constructed there) but will give it another try later.

Yesterday, during a bike ride to the picturesque Microsoft hyperscale datacenter in Middenmeer (NL), I learned that Microsoft and Google store over 2 million liters of Diesel there, of which half is burned during monthly and yearly tests of their emergency generator. I suppose this is commonly known, their way to reach 99,999 percent availability, I just never pictured datacenters having *that* many chimneys... Biking past them also lets the hyper-ness of their scale sink in 😱

@neauoire @rezmason @rra @cblgh waterways, soil and bodies. What if older electronics weren't discarded but....

@neauoire @rra @rezmason @tendigits @cblgh obsolescence. These practices, together with a demand for the repairability of devices...

The call for papers for the LIMITS 2022 workshop is out, for those interested in the relation between computing, ecological limits in general, climate- and climate justice. 🌱

https://computingwithinlimits.org/2022/

#sustainability #lowtech #ecology #computing