Should We Be Concerned About Growing Electricity Demand? (40:30)
Gestalt IT, Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
According to a recent report from the IEA, data center electricity demands are set to rise over the next three years. The report discusses the CO2 emissions and the potential mitigation that companies have committed to doing to achieve carbon neutrality. Also of note was the assertion that clean energy sources could meet this growing demand to help offset the need to rely on older power systems that are harder to optimize for efficiency.
1:09 - Veeam Poking Around with Proxmox
The brouhaha around Broadcom and VMware is leading to some interesting explorations. News came out this week that backup giant Veeam is exploring support for Proxmox. This report highlights the growing concern with the direction that Broadcom is taking and reflects community interest in an open source alternative to commercial virtualization solutions. The conversation so far seems to be mostly replying to discussion threads, indicating that Veeam is interested in what the community is seeing and how they're feeling about the future of virtualization.