Kat Walsh wrote:
We are currently motivated to conserve energy simply because it costs less if we are efficient, and certainly I think we should take care not to be wasteful!
There are a couple of important differences between electricity pricing and ecological cost:
1. electricity at knams and yaseo is donated 2. electricity at pmtpa is charged by peak power usage rather than by energy usage
Thus we waste energy in two ways: 1. we keep more servers switched on at knams and yaseo than we need 2. we make no effort to conserve power during off-peak times, beyond what the servers do by default
-- Tim Starling