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I'd be interested, too.

I once read in some article that CPUs have the same power consumption as equivalent output of a nuclear reactor, based on size, of course. So the 1 inch of a CPU takes as much energy as 1 inch of a nuclear fusion output from a nuclear reactor. Again, I don't know if this is true, but if it is, that's a lot of heat energy, given the number of computers in the world.

But maybe I remember wrong, this was probably 15 or 20 years ago that I read this.



Must have been a Pentium 4.




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