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It's running a normal central home heat pump/air conditioner for one hour, or eight hours of playing on a gaming PC. Yeah, the propaganda around datacenter resource usage has massively outrun the truth, which makes me think there are some very interested parties pushing behind the scenes.

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I don't discount the possibility, but I think part of it is that no one was interested in knowing how many resources normal computing costs. Any one of us who's worked on a video platform or cloud storage providers already knew how the sausage was made, but as long as it provided unlimited videos and photo storage, the public didn't care.

Though I do suspect that golf course owners in Arizona and alfalfa farmers in California must be ecstatic.

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