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At the same time, U.S. companies exported about 1.7 million barrels a day of excess diesel that stateside truckers, farmers and other commercial shippers didn’t consume.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

But the way people consume media has changed—some now wait until an entire series is released to binge it at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

There has been much anger in recent years about how much water some of the larger data centres consume in trying to keep the equipment cool.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

While Americans would not spend all of the $5,000, a reasonable assumption is that they would spend more than 60%, or what economists call the marginal propensity to consume.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

In the United States, that hidden water use can be twice the amount a data center consumes on its own.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

To deal with the water shortages along the Colorado River, others have suggested policies that encourage farmers to grow less hay — which consumes nearly half of the water diverted from the river.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

She consumes about 3,500 calories every day to ensure she has enough energy.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Rent now consumes 40% of Roe’s $83,000 gross income, roughly the median household income in the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Currently the water consumed by existing data centres is relatively low.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Opposition lawmaker Ezio Angelini says Venezuela produced 20,000 megawatts a day and consumed just 12,000 before longtime leader Hugo Chavez took power in 1999.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Those analyses detected arecoline inside the dental tissues of the ancient foragers, providing strong evidence that they had consumed betel nut.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

There has been growing enthusiasm for the technology following a 2022 breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where researchers were able to create a fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Many nonprofits consumed 20 to 25 percent of their donations for overhead.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

A disaster management agency official said over the weekend that 12 people had been infected with the disease after consuming dead wildlife in the Munyamadzi River area.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

“You see a lot of people consuming the minimum, what they need to get by through the week,” said owner Carina Murillo, 31, as she checked out customers on a recent weekday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

One group followed a time-restricted eating schedule, consuming food only between noon and 8 p.m. without counting calories.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

The model is only scaffolding, which, after consuming vast amounts of training data and running trillions of permutations, arrives at an outcome that can’t be known beforehand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

A cell’s metabolic identity—i.e., whether it was consuming lactose or glucose—could be ascertained not by the sequence of its genes, which was always constant, but by the amount of RNA that a gene was producing.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee