▲ | dns_snek 4 days ago | |
According to Google's latest environmental report[1] that number was 30 TWh per year in 2024, but as far as I can tell that's their total consumption of their datacenters, which would include everything from Google Search, to Gmail, Youtube, to every Google Cloud customer. Is it broken down by product somewhere? 30 TWh per year is equivalent to an average power consumption of 3.4 GW for everything Google does. This partnership is 3x more energy intensive. Ultimately the difference in `real value/MWh` between these two must be many orders of magnitude. [1] https://sustainability.google/reports/google-2025-environmen... | ||
▲ | onlyrealcuzzo 3 days ago | parent [-] | |
Data centers typically use 60% (or less) on average of their max rating. You over-provision so that you (almost) always have enough compute to meet your customers needs (even at planet scale, your demand is bursty), you're always doing maintenance on some section, spinning up new hardware and turning down old hardware. So, apples to apples, this would likely not even be 2x at 30TWh for Google. |