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Re:Scaling to 100k Users by vonseel on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:41AM (#22254504)
* Compute period is 10% of all electricity production*

You found stats on that? I’m surprised

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Re:Scaling to 100k Users by BoorishBears on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:52AM (#22256919)
Actually the figure I found was for "all ICT", if we mean compute to be data centers (I did) , it's even lower:

2% projected to reach 8% in a decade (https://fortune.com/2019/09/18/internet-cloud-server-data-ce...)

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