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[โ€“] alekwithak@lemmy.world 419 points 9 months ago (98 children)

No one is ever concerned with how much energy is used to feed ads to the entire population of earth 24/7.

[โ€“] hungrybread@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Exactly! Blockchain and PoW are terrible but id really like to know how much time and electricity is consumed to serve ads, cool servers, train and educate people to effectively become ad engineers.

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