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maxinstuff@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Are we talking consumed for their own use? Or consumed as part of delivering cloud services to their customers?
These are very different things. The former would be horrifying the latter would be misleading in the extreme.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I think it is the customers who pay for the electricity that they use? Las time I checked MS didn’t pay anything in my electric bill.
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
For software and devices running locally, sure. Much of what MS does these days is cloud based where the bulk of the electricity is being used in a data center somewhere and the customer isn’t (directly) paying for it.
kurap1ka@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well you don’t have 1000 cms running in azure, do you? It’s not about your Xbox…