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Microsoft and Google's electricity consumption surpasses the power usage of over 100 countries (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 1 month ago by MrMakabar to c/degrowth

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We have moved away from building software as efficiently as possible within the constraints of hardware to just “if its slow just throw more hardware at it”

[–] florge@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

That happened back when Vista came along.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

That has always been the Microsoft way.

[–] geography082@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Tax the fuck out of them. Problem solved

[–] Puttaneska@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I do my best to avoid both of them…it’s clearly not helping all that much.

[+] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee -6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I understand Microsoft using so much power since they have tons of data centers… but why Google? Do they possibly have as many as Microsoft?

I live in data center central in Virginia and haven’t seen any google ones.

GPT tells me they are in a bunch of random states… interesting.

[–] MrMakabar 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They are also in Virginia in Energy Park Drive, Leesburg, VA, USA, but they tend to not put big banners on them. It is surprisingly difficult to google Google data centers

[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Okay I’m in brambleton so just about every other data center is here. I didn’t even know there were data centers in Leesburg but I knew they wanted to build them of sicolin rd near the private airport. I just assume every lifeless looking data center was AWS

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Can we Bing Google Data Centers?