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Honestly probably less than all the showers you took in the same amount of time.

Not quite sure how to calculate it, but a n2-highmem-128 instance running at near peak for 24 hours surely uses more electricity than the energy required to heat a dozen or two gallons of water per day.

Sure but Google Cloud is carbon neutral and nearing literal zero levels of carbon emissions

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/clean-en...

64 cores and close to 1 TB of RAM will probably consume not more than 2.5 kW or so based on available TDP/power consumption figures.

In 24 hours it consumes about the same amount of energy (2.5kW * 24h = 60 kWh) as charging a Model 3 LR's battery from 0 to 75%. So definitely more than heating up two dozen gallons of water even to boiling temperature (8 kWh), but still within the realm of household consumption with EVs.

The economic impact is not negligible, even if it does come out of the GCP PR budget: about $360k. Yada yada idle servers, but what could all that idle compute be used for to benefit humanity?

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