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Google and Microsoft consume more energy than 100+ countries | Windows Central (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and how much of that is energy that's essentially used to run other companies, by way of their cloud services? I imagine that'd be a pretty substantial amount.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, that level of centralization in the hands of a for-profit corporation is worrisome too. They'll lure in small businesses and then enshittify.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They'll lure in small businesses and then enshittify.

I'm not so sure... These "cloud" services are paid services they make a lot of money from, and it's a huge industry with a very large number of competitors (practically all major hosting services, and even a lot of smaller ones).