> today March 14 (represented as 3/14 in many parts of the world), we’re excited to announce that we successfully computed p to 31.4 trillion decimal places.
> We ran 25 nodes for 111.8 days, or 2,795 machine-days (7.6 machine-years)
This was before.
> and Google just added another 37.2 trillion digits.
> Total elapsed time: 157 days, 23 hours, 31 minutes and 7.651 seconds
This was now.
> Since then, the bandwidth available on Google's cloud infrastructure has increased by 600%,
Oh that's cool. I'd forgotten they had the traffic up online. I was wondering how many people had switched over to it over the last week (I've gone back to using it as my default engine again - not for the first time).
How many queries does google process per day? 1B? DDG is up 1M in the last week. So it could realistically represent a 0.1% drop in traffic for google - or am I way off somehow? It's not unrealistic to think it could go up another magnitude again. Then you're starting to talk about a real impact to Google's bottom line.
This was where I originally remember reading the information about Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24759929. The linked Information article does discuss the survey but also the objective measures Google uses (like commit volume) that declined.
Ah yes, that number is from 2011, published by Google. Can't find the original. But it was widely reported[1].
Assuming that they're doubling energy consumption every year they'd have reached 8GW in 2016. That's 8W per user if we assume 1 billion users. Energy usage of a Raspberry is not insignificant relative to even this.
Doing things at scale is vastly more efficient. And only a subset of Google services can be relegated to a Raspberry. Even if you host your own mails, are you ready to ditch the Google search index and Youtube?
I remember a story from someone at Google about someone who emailed them with a number every once in a while, and the number kept going up. They finally figured out it was the size of the Google home page, and the person was making sure they knew when it was getting bigger. It was something small, but big for the time. It's now almost 1MB zipped.
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