Of note, China has a population roughly 4x that of the US

mathgeek 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Which advantage(s) of a larger population do you believe is involved here?

	▲	soulofmischief 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I believe the implication is that their society has different baseline energy needs before compute even comes into play. And compute requirements are also multiplicative with population.

mcoliver 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

and roughly equal (1x not 4x) land when you include hawaii and Alaska.