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Busy servers generate more heat. Inefficient code makes servers busier. There’s a real physical outcome for bad performance code at scale.

But you don’t really want lots of idle or underused servers, aside from burst capacity management. So if they universally and consistently wrote more efficient code I’d expect a smaller datacenter. Full of still busy servers but just less of them.

parent yardstick 2 months ago

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