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Re:Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation by Panzer04 on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:00PM (#37043114)
The price of a new processor readily embodies the energy used to create it (by a significant margin, because of all the other stuff that needs to be paid for by the price of the processor)

It's a very safe bet that, assuming you do significant work with the processor, that a modern processor will more than make up for its inefficiency.

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Re:Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation by tuatoru on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:29PM (#37043741)
Environmental damage is mostly not included in the price of goods. Economics has a word, externality, to describe this.
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Re:Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s Modern Foundation by Panzer04 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:35PM (#37056903)
Right, but we were talking about the energy embodied in manufacturing a processor. It should be obvious that the price of the processor includes the cost of the energy needed to manufacture it, and therefore there is a clear cap on how much extra energy a processor can consume before it would be obviously better to get a more modern and efficient processor.
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