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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There might be some double counting, but it doesn't matter - this just illustrates the insane scale of these companies.

[–] FishFace 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] filister 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Correction, the insane amount of energy the AI needs

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] Num10ck 0 points 4 months ago

perhaps until they get neural links installed on prisoners.