<div dir="auto">So far the giant cloud systems and super computers run Linux. And those monsters suck down power like it free. In fact, that's why datacenters get built where they do - cheaper power. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In terms of efficiency, think FLOPS/Watt, the compute style matters. Is it raw number crunching or IO heavy? Those GPUs are very amperage hungry but flops/watt are more efficient than a general purpose cpu. AMD still outpaces Intel in the cpu flops/watt race. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't see Microsoft servers being the beast behind the datacenter power hogs. I do see almost all aspects of datacenter power, cooling, and access management being run by microsoft servers. But that's 4-5 servers in a datacenter. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Linux won. I got that car tag a long time ago.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">LINUX1</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 31, 2024, 1:07 PM Solomon Peachy via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 12:43:39PM -0400, Bob Toxen via Ale wrote:<br>
> Datacenters may use as much as 9% of total U.S. electricity in six years.<br>
> Home computers use some too.<br>
> <br>
> Since Linux uses roughly half the electricity as Windows, switching to Linux in the<br>
> data centers will save a lot of electricity. Get the treehuggers to champion this.<br>
<br>
The overwhelming majority of the systems in datacenters are already <br>
running Linux. So what you're saying is that, Linux is, by <br>
itself, responsible for nearly 9% of total US electrical consumption. [1]<br>
<br>
...And I should point out that if you put Linux vs Windows on modern <br>
laptop harwdare, the odds are high that Windows actually uses less, both <br>
when on-but-otherwise-idle and in a suspended state.<br>
<br>
(This is even more true when comparing Linux vs MacOS on Apple hardware)<br>
<br>
[1] Excluding cooling, which can be up to half of that energy usage..<br>
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