Based on Facebook's 2013 sustainability report, Burrington (2015) shows that its data centres alone consumed as much energy as Burkina Faso and, as Section B.1(b) found, the Bitcoin network uses as much electricity as a country the size of Ireland. This is due to the extraordinary economies of scale and scope that exist in digital-intensive sectors. As pointed out above, Goldfarb and Trefler (2018a) explain how firms relying on digital technologies, and in particular Al, benefit from having access to large amounts of information.