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Computers use next to nothing in total. Almost all energy is used on heating/cooling, transport and farming.

• Nextgrid 7y ago
  It still means we're wasting energy cooling computers that are used for advertising & stalking. Those computers can be put to better use instead.
  • ndnxhs 7y ago
    The bigger problem is advertising drives needless and wasteful consumption.
    • savanaly 7y ago
      It certainly accompanies it (can you imagine a world where there was needless and wasteful consumption, but no one bothered to advertise?). I wouldn't be so sure about causation.
      • TeMPOraL 7y ago
        If you can't imagine a world with wasteful consumption but no advertising, that kind of tentatively rules out "wasteful consumption causes advertising". What remains is "advertising causes wasteful consumption" and "wasteful consumption and advertising are both caused by a third thing", but given that advertising is literally the art and science of making people buy more stuff, the "advertising causes wasteful consumption" option seems the most probable.