I have been thinking about this recently, and do suspect that there will be some rollback on the use of computers. On one hand they dont use that much power on their own, but on the other, if there is a need to drastically reduce enrgy use, that will mean return to simpler internet, possibly less frequent access and use ...
some rollback on the use of computers. On one hand they dont use that much power on their own, but on the other, if there is a need to drastically reduce enrgy use, that will mean return to simpler internet, possibly less frequent access and use
I think people will absolutely work their asses off to continue using computers using whatever means necessary. This will be in forms like alternative/decentralized energy like I mentioned elsewhere in the comments and a reduction in overall computing power. Server farms and datacenters will be shut down and communities will basically communicate through a raspberry pi in someone's basement. Gamers and bitcoin miners will get the wall and their systems will be liberated and put to the only purposes that can justify that sort of electrical use, like physics and chemistry simulations and weather modeling.
Oh, computers are good. And will be incredibly useful. But yes, I do agree that large scale server farms and datacenters will be shut down. But so many of them right now serve little purpose anyway, and you can still run a great internet with probably a fraction of what it is now.
I don't think so. All this stuff doesn't use that much power. Even data centers don't actually use that much power when you look at how much they serve. It's just so much activity concentrated in such a small space it looks like a lot.
I have been thinking about this recently, and do suspect that there will be some rollback on the use of computers. On one hand they dont use that much power on their own, but on the other, if there is a need to drastically reduce enrgy use, that will mean return to simpler internet, possibly less frequent access and use ...
I think people will absolutely work their asses off to continue using computers using whatever means necessary. This will be in forms like alternative/decentralized energy like I mentioned elsewhere in the comments and a reduction in overall computing power. Server farms and datacenters will be shut down and communities will basically communicate through a raspberry pi in someone's basement. Gamers and bitcoin miners will get the wall and their systems will be liberated and put to the only purposes that can justify that sort of electrical use, like physics and chemistry simulations and weather modeling.
Oh, computers are good. And will be incredibly useful. But yes, I do agree that large scale server farms and datacenters will be shut down. But so many of them right now serve little purpose anyway, and you can still run a great internet with probably a fraction of what it is now.
I don't think so. All this stuff doesn't use that much power. Even data centers don't actually use that much power when you look at how much they serve. It's just so much activity concentrated in such a small space it looks like a lot.