All it took to completely break the blue states was a couple bus loads of illegals.
After decades of calling southern states bigots for the crime of wanting the border enforced, suck it MA!
Massachusetts calls up national guard to cope with migrants as protests rage
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Massachusetts calls up national guard to cope with migrants as protests rage
Gov. Maura Healey mobilized the Massachusetts National Guard on Thursday to help transport the latest wave of asylum seekers to shelters across the state.Ronny Reyes (New York Post)
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[Sorry about the wall of text. I'm currently doing an entirely different analysis of Google Cloud services and my brain latched onto this as more interesting - I'm mostly just riffing off the subject in general.]
That is both generous and a fair point, at least in the case of anything involving CPU/GPU/TPU intensive data crunching. Although I'm not sure how many people would use a desktop workstation for that anyway.
My own VM use (on our on-premises hypervisor) also has definite environmental benefits in that I don't need to maintain additional hardware for all of my test systems, itself a factor in a business's carbon footprint.
In Google's case, I genuinely would like to see their cross-business figures on this, as they indicate that most day-to-day tasks are carried on E2 (high efficiency) VMs, which realistically aren't going to provide any significant power over the typical low-power laptop or compact office PC that staff might otherwise be using (assuming they aren't working remotely from from their own workstations, which if I were earning Google money, would be insane). Great for privacy and security, but power efficiency?
Their 2022 climate action progress update (linked at sustainability.google/operatin…) says that across all data centres they're averaging 66% carbon-free energy and highlights the company's purchase of wind and solar power, but the same paper says that carbon credits and used to improve its figures and that "Google.org has contributed more than
$6 million to strengthen carbon markets, digitize their
infrastructure, and set standards for high-quality carbon credits", which makes everything else sitting next to it look like greenwashed nonsense.
Knowing how much current enterprise financial and operational paradigms love prioritising OpEx over CapEx, and the pitch Google (and Amazon! and Microsoft!) has for cloud desktops in this case, vdesktops definitely feel like there's more of an accurate appeal to that side of things than towards raw carbon emissions.
In general, I also wonder how much modern corporate data centre use is presumed to be economies of scale versus its potential for encouraging waste.
Aiming to Achieve Net-Zero Emissions - Google Sustainability
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