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I don't have a good intuition for that kind of heterogeneous comparison. Can it be compared with other Internet services? How much electricity does Facebook co

I don't have a good intuition for that kind of heterogeneous comparison. Can it be compared with other Internet services? How much electricity does Facebook consume, for example? What about internet advertisements?

pavlov 9y ago
That's a really good question. I don't have the answer but I'd like to know too.
wor3q 9y ago
It's 5 times what USA use on christmas lights: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-christmas-energy-entire-countries.html https://phys.org/news/2015-12-christmas-energy-entire-countr... Or 3,5 times what Amazon US-East cluster consumes: https://datacenterfrontier.com/amazon-approaches-1-gigawatt-of-cloud-capacity-in-virginia/ https://datacenterfrontier.com/amazon-approaches-1-gigawatt-...