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How would that help? Reducing the number of data centers doesn’t reduce the demand for them.

Efficiency of scale is very real for datacenters

Whoops I wrote this backwards. I meant to write reducing the size of datacenters.

The proposal I replied to would probably increase data center energy usage on balance.

A lot of technologies only work “at scale”. Some things can be scaled down, but I don’t think that’s trivial.