use up

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Or when utility bills skyrocket because data centers use up enormous energy.

From The Wall Street Journal

Under Tuesday’s agreement, Meta will buy enough of AMD’s latest chips, known as the MI450 series, to power data centers using up to 6 gigawatts of computing power over the next five years.

From The Wall Street Journal

If the U.S. uses up large amounts of air-defense munitions and other items that are in limited supply, it could also impact preparations for a possible future conflict with China.

From The Wall Street Journal

"When patients arrive in a neurology clinic they have used up their internal reserve capacity, so the progression of weakness is often rapid."

From BBC

“We have come a long way in the last 10,000 years,” Mr. Ennos writes, though people are “using up stores of energy that had been captured by plants from sunlight over millions of years.”

From The Wall Street Journal