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[-] CorvidCawder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Not even remotely close to this scale... At most you could compare the energy usage to the miners in the crypto craze, but I'm pretty sure that even that is just a tiny fraction of what's going on right now.

[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Crypto miners wish they could be this inefficient. No literally they do. They're the "rolling coal" mfers of the internet.

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