How much will the meltdown patches cost the industry in electricity?

based on the performance penalties

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Even though CPUs have been made more power efficient the last decade, I've read that there'll be a performance reduction of 30-50% on the intel ones.

I thought it was more like 20-30% for specific applications, mostly database stuff.