“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.”
@Archivist@parismarx It really shouldn't be a thing to have datacenters that aren't integrated into impact mitigation measures like that.
More generally, we should modernize UUCPnet (NNCP is a good place to start) and stop relying on 24/7 uptime for the overwhelming majority of things.
(And ideally we'd do all that with plugable transports so it can be used atop anonymizing overlay networks that do not integrate the mistakes of the clearnet.)