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 Not really. More like chinese warehouses with ASIC running 24/7 non-stop while burning coal for electricity to mine that fedcoin.

You are confusing with monero, which indeed is mined by any laptop.

https://image.nostr.build/969504b039a2067d152c82925dbe5869ba2ad3f86aaa95101b6ca27d87e9c809.jpg 
 Salty. 
 Not all nodes are miners!! The nodes on the network validate the mined blocks!