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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by thatcat on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:30PM (#17249158)
The only reason anyone cares is because it's relatively easy to compute this inefficiency compared to the vast sea of inefficient products that would require signifigant effort to even approximate.
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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by d0lph on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @05:01PM (#17251093)
Precisely, I'm sure there's an enormous amount of infrastructure, extraction equipment, storage, processing and reprocessing.

Without the full data such a statement is vacuous.

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