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Re:Making a case for JavaScript, in-browser Mining by saint_fiasco on Thursday February 15, 2018 @07:50AM (#16383589)
I don't have a good intuition for that kind of heterogeneous comparison.

Can it be compared with other Internet services? How much electricity does Facebook consume, for example? What about internet advertisements?

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Re:Making a case for JavaScript, in-browser Mining by wor3q on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:26AM (#16384183)
It's 5 times what USA use on christmas lights: https://phys.org/news/2015-12-christmas-energy-entire-countr...

Or 3,5 times what Amazon US-East cluster consumes: https://datacenterfrontier.com/amazon-approaches-1-gigawatt-...

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Re:Making a case for JavaScript, in-browser Mining by pavlov on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:08AM (#16384049)
That's a really good question. I don't have the answer but I'd like to know too.
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