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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seBM to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 11 hours ago

Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more

www.computerworld.com

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Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more

www.computerworld.com

RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seBM to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 11 hours ago
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Google will pay you to use less power so its data centers can use more
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It says it’s building a 1GW virtual power plant, but it’s really just paying people to turn off their appliances so others can use that electricity instead.

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  • Hirom@beehaw.org
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    asking others to temporarily stop consuming electricity […], effectively moving their electricity usage to a time when there is less demand.

    Google should temporarily consuming electricity during peak.

    • ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Their batch LLM endpoints probably do that already.

  • Harvey656@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Im not shutting my pc off at night after reading this.

  • ivan@piefed.social
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    Would be funny to get a big bunch of theatre lightbulbs that consume energy in kilowatts and light them up around Google HQ. 🌝

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    https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/google-quietly-changes-privacy-policy-so-your-gmail-and-photos-could-be-used-in-targeted-ads-3421462/

    Muck that disguised be evil©️ link in the posted article, too.

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    It’s a trap.gif

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