| ▲ | csomar 2 days ago | |
Theoretically, if your computation is energy efficient, you won't need any electricity at all since the real computation costs zero energy. | ||
| ▲ | majoe a day ago | parent [-] | |
That's not correct. For ordinary computers there is Landauer's principle, which gives a theoretical lower limit for the energy needed for computation [0]. I say "ordinary computers" because other comments mentioned "reversible computers" for which this limit doesn't apply. According to the linked wikipedia page, this theoretical limit is around a billion times smaller than current computers use for an operation, so you may call me pedantic. | ||