Alright, I hope this doesn't come off as too much of a rant, but I've been looking into numbers for my next homelab piece. I find moral issue with Intel's newer lineup of Gold and Platinum CPUs that have TDPs that are equivalent to entry - mid tier consumer graphics cards. Imagine these are populated in a high percentage of data center deployments on the planet (actually not hard to imagine at all)... where is this energy coming from? 200w-350w + for a single CPU just to (presumably) stay competitive with AMD? Didn't we have a massive energy issue when people were mining bitcoin like crazy with GPUs (with admittedly more power consumption, but relatively speaking the operations of those vs the data center deployments of these.... )
It feels to me like Intel is putting corporate profits ahead of the wellbeing of our planet. Do others share the sentiment that there is an ethical responsibility here to use world resources wisely? Intel sets the example for their customers to follow. If Intel operates without environmental bounds, customers will follow. But I don't even see an advantage in terms of operating costs - beating AMD marginally on paper will double power costs and influence the rest of the global energy market...
Am I completely off my wagon?
It feels to me like Intel is putting corporate profits ahead of the wellbeing of our planet. Do others share the sentiment that there is an ethical responsibility here to use world resources wisely? Intel sets the example for their customers to follow. If Intel operates without environmental bounds, customers will follow. But I don't even see an advantage in terms of operating costs - beating AMD marginally on paper will double power costs and influence the rest of the global energy market...
Am I completely off my wagon?
