JFC. Meanwhile, Hetzner charges 26 ct/kWh in Finland and 53 ct/kWh in Germany [1]. At these prices (and yes, I'm aware these also include the cooling costs) it's completely inexplicable to me how Germany can ever get actually competitive with US services.
Oh, wait … you’re telling me they just phased that out? :(
But yeah, as it turns out energy prices matter; it’s not just corporate overlords of the fuel companies spreading astroturf when people point out the still-high costs of using renewables. It matters to homes and cars and industry too, and when energy costs more, the nation will have less.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source (but also take a look at https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2020-12... from the IEA/NEA)
The non-intermittents get to name their price. Except for nuclear, of course. EDF were forced to sell at 45 Euros / MWh when the market rate was over 600 last summer, because the private sector is more efficient, so can't be allowed to compete with reactors whose capital cost was paid 40 years ago by a government.
The whole European energy system is a fucking mess, trying to ignore this obvious fact that grids cannot be allowed to fail. Now, go to an manufacturing conference in Europe and the atmosphere is a fucking funeral. Try selling to customers when your plant produces half of what a US or China plant does, at irregular intervals, because it's at the mercy of metereologists. Go on. Try it.
They’re all over the state. Probably can’t walk far without tripping over one!
[0]: https://www.nola.com/news/environment/new-federal-office-wil...
Also, all of this due to pressure from the Greens party, which must be respected for the ruling coalition to operate. I will never understand why Greens think that nuclear reactor problems are just as bad as global warming. Tried talking to some voters, got nothing back except "humans are bad". I guess we're far, far away from a solution if the political parties built around global warming do not understand the problem.
Speed of light and data governance laws.
My guess is it's because the US competitors are run by incompetent people that see no need to improve anything because they have non-competitive lock-in.
If anything, European operators have been utterly incompetent in that regard. And not for lack of trying. The only European players left are scaleway and ovh.
On the other hand, you can find tons of cheap operators in the US, they just don't get a similar rep to hetzner here on HN. Hetzner also found a very good niche with their second hand server that you can bid on, for sure. And to be clear, it provides a great service for the price.
I have three Asus ESC8000 G3 with 8*3080 GPUs each. I have been hosting in the basement but looking at colocation or renting a space. Colocation pricing doesn't seem to favor power-hungry GPU servers though.
I have a source for cheap Asus ESC8000 G3 and cheap 3080 turbo cards, in case anyone needs to set up machines for ML inference, mail me.
On the one hand, the bill is always the same amount, regardless of power consumption. On the other hand, you gotta make sure you use your power budget or you're wasting money.
What was more shocking to me in that article was that google used 25% of Dallas's water supply.
Between power use and water use, while I appreciate teaching people to be mindful and responsible, I feel like caring slightly less about where I set my thermometer or if I have a long shower when our country's resources are being depleted by big tech and alfalfa shipments to China and almond harvests in California.
As someone else pointed out, it is not Dallas, it is The Dalles. Totally different and vastly smaller town.
I think the only people who -really- care about it are non-US people. Here in the US we know how to do conversions as necessary, and we don't bitch about it.
My parents were taught it in the 40s/50s but not longer use is either
At work I tend to write dates yyyy/mm/dd so it’s clear to my US coworkers what the actually date is
How? And can you provide any examples?
EU is actually doing the opposite because they don't want to be cut off from the US internet companies. For instance, now allowing EU citizens data to be transferred to and stored in the US.