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Google and Microsoft consume more energy than 100+ countries | Windows Central(www.windowscentral.com)

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dutchkimble@lemy.lol
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But people from those countries must also be using Google and Microsoft

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

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FishFace@lemmy.world
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Comparing huge multinational countries which serve every country to the half of countries with the smallest energy usage is not terribly illustrative.

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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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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.

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filister@lemmy.worldOP
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Correction, the insane amount of energy the AI needs

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magic_lobster_party@kbin.run
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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.

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Num10ck@lemmy.world
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perhaps until they get neural links installed on prisoners.

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

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