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by gruez 1924 days ago
cough ad-tech cough
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romski 1924 days ago
ad-tech runs on a fractional of data centers right? So it's already eclipsed by crypto.
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gruez 1924 days ago
if we're talking about resource usage, we also have to factor in the energy/bandwidth in end-user devices, as well has human labor (bitcoin miners aren't hiring tens/hundreds of thousands of SWEs, for instance).
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