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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by sokoloff on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @08:56PM (#38020382)
> Datacenters are something like 20% of all energy consumption.

Do you have a source for that? It didn't sound right and my quick Googling suggests that it's off by around a factor of 20 or more. (Some put datacenters as low as 1% of total electricity consumption, which is a subset of all energy consumption.)

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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by uoaei on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @09:43PM (#38020708)
It was admittedly hearsay. My research says it's about 2% of energy use in the US and 1% of electricity use worldwide with remarkable constancy in electricity demands due to storage and computing efficiency gains. Thanks for the reality check.
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