With all the advancements in technology, do you think we will see a smaller data center that uses less energy and cooling due to the reduced size of servers, especially GPUs, in the next 20 years?
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@nixCraft nope. I think they will just ad more servers.
@nixCraft if tech makes it cheaper, it will surge demand, so no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
@nixCraft no, i think the size of datacenters will increase still. But maybe the usefulness will increase a lot more. Just like electric lights didnt reduce the cost of illumination. Now everything is just illuminated... All the time
Of course, bloated software can make that advancement irrelevant and you probably need 100 tiny servers to do the same work you did 20 years ago 馃槄
@nixCraft I mean, I was on a project at Intel that wanted to use NUCs as servers. That didn't come to fruition, but it was brought to upper management as a 'possible solution' for some silly reason. 馃し
@nixCraft Bloated software is an example of Murphy's law. If it CAN be implemented, it WILL be implemented.
@nixCraft I think we will probably see induced demand. With higher efficancy we will just increase usage.