Sure but now you are wasting significant human capital reinventing the wheel with substantially worse results.
So using your math, you’ve got humans, which have high environmental costs in order to... well... live... wasting their life and consuming tons of resources doing something that was done better for cheaper.
Humans cost tons of money to operate. More than data centers or anything else. Don’t waste them on stupid projects like writing shitty versions of AWS.
Your own logic should lead you to conclude all the people wasting expensive human lives reinventing javascript frameworks, deployment systems, cloud orchestration systems, database systems and AWS... these are the folks doing true harm to the environment. It is much better for the planet to lock yourself into AWS, Azure, or google cloud and exploit the shit out of everything they do than it is to piss away incredibly expensive resources building your own.
And I am more than happy to boldly assert if you are working on a project that aims to re-invent AWS for your company... you are a waste of human capital.
As someone who sort of held the view that the incredible inefficiencies in modern computing and 'cloud stuff' was a net negative on the environment, thanks for this comment. I still don't think mindlessly throwing extremely inefficient stuff into a datacenter for no reason is a great thing to do but this gives me a lot better perspective as to why it isn't so black and white of a thing. I forget sometimes that humans have a very high cost to operate too.
So using your math, you’ve got humans, which have high environmental costs in order to... well... live... wasting their life and consuming tons of resources doing something that was done better for cheaper.
Humans cost tons of money to operate. More than data centers or anything else. Don’t waste them on stupid projects like writing shitty versions of AWS.
Your own logic should lead you to conclude all the people wasting expensive human lives reinventing javascript frameworks, deployment systems, cloud orchestration systems, database systems and AWS... these are the folks doing true harm to the environment. It is much better for the planet to lock yourself into AWS, Azure, or google cloud and exploit the shit out of everything they do than it is to piss away incredibly expensive resources building your own.
And I am more than happy to boldly assert if you are working on a project that aims to re-invent AWS for your company... you are a waste of human capital.