• @[email protected]
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      213 months ago

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

      • @FishFace
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        93 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]
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          03 months ago

          I think you meant comparing companies, guessing autocorrect got you.

          And I disagree, it’s useful, but more useful would be a chart of countries and multi-nationals, with the company usage removed from the country usage, to see it more clearly.

      • @filisterOP
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        43 months ago

        Correction, the insane amount of energy the AI needs

        • magic_lobster_party
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          173 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.

        • @Num10ck
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          03 months ago

          perhaps until they get neural links installed on prisoners.

    • @[email protected]
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      133 months ago

      Not just people, but importantly also corporations running their services on Microsoft azure or Google cloud.