>>> So how much power do you think it takes to run 50,000 computers, plus
>>> air conditioning for them, if each has (say) 150W power supply?
>>
>> As I say, the point is that most people will never see 50,000 computers
>> in one place all at once.
>
> That isn't really necessary to be able to do the math....

Sure, that's the great thing about math; it always works right, unlike 
intuition. ;-)

But it's not a calculation most people would bother to make, because the 
power consumption of a PC is "negligible".

In a similar vein, the heat output of a normal human in a large empty 
room is also negligible. But weirdly, if you put /a lot/ of humans in a 
room, no matter how big that room is, they manage to raise the 
temperature of the whole room. Unexpected, but true...

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