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

submitted 4 months ago by MrMakabar to c/degrowth

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months 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 4 months ago

That happened back when Vista came along.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

That has always been the Microsoft way.

[–] geography082@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

Tax the fuck out of them. Problem solved

[–] Puttaneska@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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

[+] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee -6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago

Can we Bing Google Data Centers?