Microsoft and Google's electricity consumption surpasses the power usage of over 100 countries

[Windows Central]

In 2023, Microsoft and Google consumed 48 TWh of electricity. According to a detailed analysis by Michael Thomas, this surpasses the power consumption of over 100 nations, including Ghana, Tunisia, and more.

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@KevinOkemwa - I don't think Helion or Microsoft are going to be using Nuclear Fusion in any meaningful way by 2028. The whole article is off - population of Iceland is 300k people etc. Not a big deal. Jordan, however, uses, 11m people, but still... Microsoft and Google data centres are powering billions of people's compute, millions of business's productivity... there's going to be an energy cost for that.