[dylan604]

That such an absolutely ludicrous thing to hear in a "wtf are these people doing" type of way. I can't imagine a non-social media site would be generating enough traffic to the level that these bots need to be essentially doing continuous scraping. It's just gross to me to be okay with that level of unsophisticated effort that they just do the same thing over and over with zero gain.

[spiderfarmer]

Next to the massive amounts of energy they are burning in their own datacenters, they are burning up other datacenters as well. Plus all the extra energy used by every router, hub and switch in between.