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by b9a2cab5 1633 days ago
The difference is that energy efficiency of CPUs has continued to improve exponentially fast, whereas we are already nearing asymptotic efficiency limits in things like fiber optics and know that we can't get exponential improvement.

A 1 kW server running for a day is peanuts in carbon cost compared to sending data to millions of people.