I’m confused. I did some research online, and learned that cpu’s can essentially double has a hotplate, because 99-100% of electricity consumed is turned into heat. how? doesn’t the cpu use energy to make calcuations and render things? I’m real confused.
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I wonder if you’re confusing two different concepts.
[Conservation of Energy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_of_energy): “Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transformed or transferred from one form to another”
and
The [quantum theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hiding_theorem): “conservation of quantum information should mean that information cannot be created nor destroyed.”
A CPU doesn’t convert energy into information, it simply performs calculations that ultimately derive from combining or splitting rises and falls in electrical output (which are transformed, simply stated, into binary logic gates.) The electrical energy never _becomes_ information, it only _represents_ information. Paint on a canvas remains paint, even if we _interpret_ that paint as information. CPU electricity mostly becomes heat.
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