Weirdly, underutilization of hardware was never a problem before. In fact, wastefulness is so ingrained in programming culture that the previous hype - blockchain - was about an explicit race over who could waste the most computing power on nonsensical calculations.
Also, I'd be very surprised if the current rush to build datacenters everywhere is optimal usage of resources. How many companies are building datacenter commons and sharing with other companies to optimize resource usage?
> Two statements can be true
As I general point, because I keep seeing this line on HN: Of course they can in the general case, but more often than not, the reason why this line is written is because there is some tension or contradiction between the statements. In that case, understanding where the tension lies is IMO more useful than shrugging and deciding to "hold two contradictory thoughts in your head" like in 1984.
Sometimes it feels like a rhetoric device to "rescue" an opinion when the opposite opinion is hard to argue against.
Also, I'd be very surprised if the current rush to build datacenters everywhere is optimal usage of resources. How many companies are building datacenter commons and sharing with other companies to optimize resource usage?
> Two statements can be true
As I general point, because I keep seeing this line on HN: Of course they can in the general case, but more often than not, the reason why this line is written is because there is some tension or contradiction between the statements. In that case, understanding where the tension lies is IMO more useful than shrugging and deciding to "hold two contradictory thoughts in your head" like in 1984.
Sometimes it feels like a rhetoric device to "rescue" an opinion when the opposite opinion is hard to argue against.