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It costs money to run a datacenter, so even if you consider money to be their motivator, it benefits them to make them more efficient.


Not if spending a little extra money and keeping with the inefficiency helps make money in other ways, such as getting the product out faster or allowing their workers to focus on the tech stack. Saving a little electricity cost might cost them in their development, so they're likely to use the cheap electricity and offset the cost to the environment.


The people who work on the product are not also working on the data centers




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