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Comment by tencentshill

12 hours ago

Wasn't crypto a significant percentage as well? And that was before the AI buildout started.

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rvz  7 hours ago

Not even close. Crypto has always been able to cut their own emissions before needing lots of compute.

AI on the other hand cannot, and still needs thousands of wasteful data centers.

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