Mastodawn

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.

Compare that to:

Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%

Where are all the multi-gigawatt, tens-of-megatonnes gas-fired data centres being proposed by Netflix? Are governments frantically rushing fast-tracking laws for video streaming?

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@ketan they didn't try to one-sidedly erode copyright laws for video streaming to the benefit of corporations. at no point did anyone suggest that the GDPR shouldn't apply to video streaming services and tried to amend the law to allow video streaming services to collect sensible user data and give it to US corporations that try to exploit them or even openly suggest say they will be deciding who gets murdered by the state in the future.