Slash Data Center Energy Use With This One Weird Trick
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By changing only thirty lines of Linux kernel code, these engineers saved up to 30% of energy costs for certain applications. 30 for 30!
  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    8 months ago

    A good improvement, but an important distinction from the headline alone:

    This energy savings comes with a caveat. “It is sort of a best case because the 30 percent applies to the network stack or communication part of it,” Karsten explains. “If an application primarily does that, then it will see 30 percent improvement. If the application does a lot of other things and only occasionally uses the network, then the 30 percent will shrink to a smaller value.”

  • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    Kill off crypto mining and you’ll save even more. Charge a premium for use of LLMs and you’ll be orders of magnitude less wasteful.