[judge123]

Is a phone plugged in 24/7 actually more power-efficient than a slice of a mega-optimized cloud server?

[chneu]

Idk about power efficient but it's definitely more resource efficient. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Let's really stop fixating on the last one.

[bb88]

Well, offhand, no one buys a cloud server for power efficiency, people buy into the cloud for reliability, or performance, or cost -- or some combination thereof.

If you're buying ultra-power, you're forgoing power-efficiency.

[lmm]

> no one buys a cloud server for power efficiency, people buy into the cloud for reliability, or performance, or cost -- or some combination thereof

Low cost and power efficiency are pretty much the same thing for a datacenter though, since cooling is the most expensive part. Hence e.g. AWS pushing Graviton.

[SchemaLoad]

A single cloud server could host hundreds of thousands of personal static websites though. I suspect they probably do use less power than 100,000 old phones.

[BLKNSLVR]

It is when it's plugged into a battery which is charged from a solar panel.

[pharrington]

Assuming the power management is correctly setup, yes.