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minus-squaremaxinstuff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·5 months agoAre we talking consumed for their own use? Or consumed as part of delivering cloud services to their customers? These are very different things. The former would be horrifying the latter would be misleading in the extreme.
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minus-squaredoggle@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoFor software and devices running locally, sure. Much of what MS does these days is cloud based where the bulk of the electricity is being used in a data center somewhere and the customer isn’t (directly) paying for it.
minus-squarekurap1ka@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-25 months agoWell you don’t have 1000 vms running in azure, do you? It’s not about your Xbox…
Are we talking consumed for their own use? Or consumed as part of delivering cloud services to their customers?
These are very different things. The former would be horrifying the latter would be misleading in the extreme.
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For software and devices running locally, sure. Much of what MS does these days is cloud based where the bulk of the electricity is being used in a data center somewhere and the customer isn’t (directly) paying for it.
Well you don’t have 1000 vms running in azure, do you? It’s not about your Xbox…