Supermicro CEO would like it if you could all build new, greener datacenters

Transitioning just half of all datacenters to sustainable operating models could cut global energy costs by $7 billion, Supermicro CEO Charles Liang claims. Building greener datacenters was a central theme of the company’s nearly hour-long Computex keynote earlier this month, where Liang touted Supermicro’s efforts to reduce …

[pavel.petrman]

Reduce e-waste

Do I read it correctly that we need to reduce e-waste by buying whole new datacenters from Supermicro, preferably this quarter?

On a side note, I have a ten year old Supermicro board in my home NAS and it still humms away quite nicely, and at quite a low consumption at that. I will be reducing my e-waste by not buying a new one as long as reasonably possible. A deal breaker for me would be immersion cooling applicable at home (which, erm, boils down to non-toxic, reasonably fire resistant dielectric liquid at a reasonable price), which is currently still unattainable, sadly.

[nijam]

> ...holy grail of datacenter cooling...

I've been doing it for years - my on-prem systems (in my study) contribute to warming the house.

(And no, I don't have, or need, aircon in this climate.)

[Doctor Syntax]

Supermicro CEO would like it if you could all build new, greener datacenters

I think that's what he actually meant.