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Power losses in computing?

How much of power supplied to PC's gets turned to heat? Would a random mesh of wires about the size of CPU use more / less power than a CPU? We get new CPUs every year with less watts, is there some kind of lower limit for this?
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Essentially 100% of what goes into a typical PC gets turned into heat. There's a bit of energy that gets turned into light/sound from the LEDs/boot and into mechanical energy for the fans but anything used to "compute" is turned into heat.