How come they're not including the impact of what they decide NOT to do, into their climate impact calculations?
Mac Minis aren’t designed for data center use. This is a hack.
Apple was in the server space and they were terrible at it[1]. Further, macOS is a terrible, inflexible server OS. Linux is king, for better or… well, for the better.
1. I worked for an organization that was part of a pilot into Apple’s enterprise push and I felt like it was more of a marketing effort than an honest attempt.
If they just changed the license to not make it illegal. I'm sure someone would figure out how to make it work. Then you can run CI on real servers, build and test iOS apps on your Windows desktop.
Anyway, I don’t think Apple should include the impact of another large company not buying the right skus in their climate calculations.
I’m not sure I’m a fan of most Apple stuff these days, but I think they do very well staying focused on premium consumer gadgets.
Because they won't allow virtualization.
However it is a shame they don't sell bare boards for specialist integrators to build these sorts of products with.