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Only 2% in exchange for the information economy. This is a fantastic trade.


Wouldn't we need to take into account all networking infrastructure, computer industry and consumer electricity consumption to see the price of the information economy?


I also wonder what percentage of that share is due to crypto.


Crypto, being decentralized, would probably not fall under the data center category. I'd be interested to see the percentage on its own though.


There are (or at least used to be) a number of datacenters filled with crypto mining equipment.


All that high value Instagram scrolling.

I bet the internet could be still highly useful without all r the surveillance capitalism and use 0.5 or less emissions.




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