The reason more performance/watt is in demand because a datacenter can't suddenly draw twice as much power.
replyI have two LARGE Xeon systems of this era that I used to use when I was heavily involved with Kubernetes and needed to build out a home lab. One is 2x Xeon w/ 256 GB of ram, and one is 1x Xeon w/ 512GB of ram. Both are slow as dogs, and both of them take up at least 150+ watts with only one power supply. My 12th gen Intel Nuc is so, so much faster and efficient. I'm recycling the Xeon systems.
replyXeon is a group of products with really varying specs. There is no indication of which XEONs. Also new consumer CPUs often have really small internal caches.
replyE5-2690s in my case.
replyYou mention lower footprint but then make a cost comparison against Claude subscription pricing.
replyClaude subscription pricing is a broken way to consider footprint.
You can call it whatever you want, money is money, and money spent on energy is footprint.
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