From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca   
      
   > 80+% of the power used by datacenters is devoted to cooling the   
   > computers - not to running them.   
      
   Is it really *that* inefficient?  Sounds even more horrible than what   
   I'd expect.  Do you have some reference?   
      
   > At the same time, most of the heat generated by typical systems is due   
   > to the RAM - not the CPU(s).   
      
   Even if we consider "CPUs" their power consumption can go much further   
   than just that of the cores.  I remember reading about Threadripper   
   spending about half its power in the its interconnect.   
   Still, I suspect you need a lot of RAM before it starts consuming more   
   power than your CPUs (at least the kind of RAM you find in gaming   
   desktops consume significantly less than the CPU, last I checked), so it   
   likely depends on the workloads that are targeted.   
      
      
           Stefan   
      
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