[irq]: techie interrupted

What the article doesn’t look at -but the folks at MastodonC will presumably cover at Strata EU- is not the energy cost of computation, but the CO2 cost, Those datacentres in VA, where Amazon US-East is, have awful CO2 footprints, being all coal-powered. That’s why it’s ironic that the NYT complains about Amazon’s diesel generators being pollution -in a part of the world where mountain-top mining converts entire mountains into smoke. They’d have been better off looking at the CO2 footprint of the datacentres, and of the other industries in the area.

MastodonC’s dashboard is why I’m storing data and spinning up t1.micro instances in US-West 2 -Oregon; lowest CO2 footprint of their US sites.