3 ms·
As I tried to clarify in the edit (which preceded your comment), my point was merely that in the aggregate, compute is very energy intensive. Just for a ballpa
by epgui 5y ago
As I tried to clarify in the edit (which preceded your comment), my point was merely that in the aggregate, compute is very energy intensive.
Just for a ballpark sense of scale:
> "Computers, data centers and networks consume 10% of the world’s electricity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_energy_management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_energy_management
- agumonkey 5y agoYeah I understood, I just thought that even planet wide, it would require each car owner to have 1000 computers to sum to the same kind of figure. I'm also saying this because some people in the energy / climate change sector said that computing electronics were insignificant (the usual suspects being heating, transportation etc)