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		thatcat on June 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to inv... The only reason anyone cares is because it's relatively easy to compute this inefficiency compared to the vast sea of inefficient products that would require signifigant effort to even approximate.

d0lph on June 6, 2018 [–]

Precisely, I'm sure there's an enormous amount of infrastructure, extraction equipment, storage, processing and reprocessing.

Without the full data such a statement is vacuous.

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