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While the phrase "a whole country" sounds dramatic, that doesn't really put the usage into perspective compared to those other examples. For example MGM claims
by shawnz 6y ago
While the phrase "a whole country" sounds dramatic, that doesn't really put the usage into perspective compared to those other examples.
For example MGM claims their properties in Nevada consume 171 MW. That's more than 65 of the countries from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricity_consumption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...
- newswasboring 6y agoLet me rephrase that. 5 million people are using more energy for small parts of their daily transactions than 44 million people in their entire daily lives. Sounds pretty dramatic to me. Even if we say that the argentinian electricity consumption is 10x lower than anywhere else, it will still be 5million people's partial amounts of transaction and 4.4 million people's daily lives (which includes all the transactions they make daily).