Capital on Nostr: This article happened to cross my path. It's largely just reporting over the articles ...
This article happened to cross my path. It's largely just reporting over the articles findings, but the opening paragraph irked me:
> One metric that has become more important over the years is that of energy efficiency, as datacenters keep growing along with their power demand. If picking one programming language over another saves even 1% of a datacenter’s electricity consumption, this could prove to be highly beneficial, assuming it weighs up against all other factors one would consider.
https://hackaday.com/2024/09/10/assessing-the-energy-efficiency-of-programming-languages/
The problem in this case isn't the choice of programming languages, but the unrestricted growth of data centers. With the introduction of LLMs, the training of them has seen titanic jumps in power usage. Additionally, data centers have a much, *much* more destructive cost to them: water usage. We don't even know how much water some companies use because they have managed to label that a trade secret...
If you are researching low power computing, keep pushing that field forward. We will need low-energy tools. I want to see extreme efficiency in computing. But, there is no future where a privatized centralized data center, trying to extract patterns and monetary value from god-knows-how-much-data, is not a resource hog.
> One metric that has become more important over the years is that of energy efficiency, as datacenters keep growing along with their power demand. If picking one programming language over another saves even 1% of a datacenter’s electricity consumption, this could prove to be highly beneficial, assuming it weighs up against all other factors one would consider.
https://hackaday.com/2024/09/10/assessing-the-energy-efficiency-of-programming-languages/
The problem in this case isn't the choice of programming languages, but the unrestricted growth of data centers. With the introduction of LLMs, the training of them has seen titanic jumps in power usage. Additionally, data centers have a much, *much* more destructive cost to them: water usage. We don't even know how much water some companies use because they have managed to label that a trade secret...
If you are researching low power computing, keep pushing that field forward. We will need low-energy tools. I want to see extreme efficiency in computing. But, there is no future where a privatized centralized data center, trying to extract patterns and monetary value from god-knows-how-much-data, is not a resource hog.