Comment by schiffern

Zooming out, 80-90% of a computer's lifecycle energy use is during manufacturing, not pulled from the wall during operation.[1] To optimize lifetime energy efficiency, it probably pushes toward extending hardware longevity (within reason, until breakeven) and maximizing compute utilization.

Ideally these goal are balanced (in some 'efficient' way) against matching electricity prices. It's not either/or, you want to do both.

Besides better amortizing the embodied energy, improving compute utilization could also mean increasing the quality of the compute workloads, ie doing tasks with high external benefits.

Love this project! Thanks for sharing.

[1] https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/embodied-energy-in-comp...