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by saint_fiasco 3046 days ago
I don't have a good intuition for that kind of heterogeneous comparison.

Can it be compared with other Internet services? How much electricity does Facebook consume, for example? What about internet advertisements?
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wor3q 3046 days ago
It's 5 times what USA use on christmas lights: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-christmas-energy-entire-countr...

Or 3,5 times what Amazon US-East cluster consumes: https://datacenterfrontier.com/amazon-approaches-1-gigawatt-...

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pavlov 3046 days ago
That's a really good question. I don't have the answer but I'd like to know too.
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