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More reason to ditch big companies and self-host

How does self hosting change the power consumption? Don't you still need to power those devices? If you're running fully on renewable, sure you have a point. But if everyone self hosts, the power companies still have to fill the energy gap, right?

For one thing, if you switch from cloud to local storage, that avoids the need for the actual bandwidth, which requires energy.

My usage of stuff often correlates to the sun being in the sky; By hosting things at my house my power consumption roughly maps to my solar output.

I can also get away with no powered cooling for my gear. ie: I need cooling well before my gear does.

> I need cooling well before my gear does.

Well, that does make sense with your username....

(And it's been pointed out to me before that there's a "Zalman" company making computer cooling equipment! What a coincidence.)

The new datacenter spending is not for hosting. It's almost exclusively for AI.

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