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Google and Microsoft consume more energy than 100+ countries | Windows Central (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There might be some double counting, but it doesn't matter - this just illustrates the insane scale of these companies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Comparing huge multinational countries which serve every country to the half of countries with the smallest energy usage is not terribly illustrative.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Correction, the insane amount of energy the AI needs

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Is all of this due to AI? I’m confident most of the energy is spent on other stuff, like data centers. Both Google and Microsoft are cloud providers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

perhaps until they get neural links installed on prisoners.