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But data centres also consume large amounts of water - some up to 40 million litres a day, which is equivalent to 80,000 households - to prevent their servers from overheating.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Tech leaders at more than 60 companies told Deloitte that they start weighing on-premises alternatives once cloud bills reach 60% to 70% of the cost of buying the equivalent hardware.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
It has estimated that Jackdaw could produce 35.8m tonnes of carbon over its 11-year lifetime, the equivalent of 90% of Scotland's emissions for 2023.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Its net loss came to 721.6 million yuan, equivalent to about $107 million, narrowing from 5.14 billion yuan a year earlier, as revenue climbed 69% to 32.14 billion yuan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
There was no sugarcoating the fact that Dad’s skills in the kitchen were the equivalent of mine at keeping a clean room.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
The company noted it converted its previously disclosed derivative position related to eBay into a direct equity investments during the quarter, resulting in a decrease in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
For the year ahead, Harmony maintained its full-year group production guidance of 1.4 million to 1.5 million ounces of gold and gold equivalents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Cash and equivalents plus short-term investments are at about $4.8 billion, while debt is at around $6.5 billion, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
The new European discovery is that once you step out of America’s first-tier cities, you find places that also are an order of magnitude “more so” than Europe’s equivalents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Contests between the abacists and the so-called algorists who used Indian numerals were the medieval equivalents of the Kasparov versus Deep Blue chess match.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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