Yes, but the point is that the customer has the agency to decide.
If I rent a server I want to be able to run it to the maximum capacity, since I'm paying for all of it. It's dishonest to make me pay for X and give me < X. Idle CPU is wasted money.
The flip side is that the provider should be also offering more climate friendly, lower power options. I'll still want to run them to the max, but the total energy consumed would be less than before.
Also not forgetting that code efficiency matters if we want to get the max results for the minimum carbon spend. Another reason why giant web frameworks and bloated OSes depress me a little.
If I rent a server I want to be able to run it to the maximum capacity, since I'm paying for all of it. It's dishonest to make me pay for X and give me < X. Idle CPU is wasted money.
The flip side is that the provider should be also offering more climate friendly, lower power options. I'll still want to run them to the max, but the total energy consumed would be less than before.
Also not forgetting that code efficiency matters if we want to get the max results for the minimum carbon spend. Another reason why giant web frameworks and bloated OSes depress me a little.