Microsoft and Google's electricity consumption surpasses the power usage of over 100 countries
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Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries.
  • maxinstuff@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Are we talking consumed for their own use? Or consumed as part of delivering cloud services to their customers?

    These are very different things. The former would be horrifying the latter would be misleading in the extreme.

    • Randomgal@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      I think it is the customers who pay for the electricity that they use? Las time I checked MS didn’t pay anything in my electric bill.

      • kurap1ka@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Well you don’t have 1000 vms running in azure, do you? It’s not about your Xbox…

      • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        For software and devices running locally, sure. Much of what MS does these days is cloud based where the bulk of the electricity is being used in a data center somewhere and the customer isn’t (directly) paying for it.