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Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

But that’s due to glass, concrete and so on. Building materials.

Global sand consumption has reached 50 billion tonnes a year, or about 17 kilograms per person per day

Even if every person in the world gets a glass CPU and GPU, that would only add a few grams of consumption. Once, not per day.

It’s such a tiny amount that’s it’s entirely irrelevant.

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