Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
by nr2x on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:18AM
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If you combine the energy costs of delivering streaming video and the client side costs of playing video and executing JavaScript I have no doubt porn far outstrips Bitcoin. Hell, I bet JavaScript bloat from adtech alone and exceeds the totally energy budget of France.
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Re:Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
by starclerk on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:49AM
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There are 3.4 billion internet users.
It takes about 30 W to watch video in a browser [1].
Assuming every internet user watches 85 minutes of video per day [2] (517 hr/year), video consumption is 52 TWh per year. Or less than half of than the bitcoin network.
Google uses 12 TWh per year [3]. Assuming Google is entirely focused on serving the world's video (it likely could), that still is ~half of the bitcoin network.
(France consumes about 480 TWh per year [4])
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/05/microsoft-internet-explore...
[2] https://www.marketingcharts.com/digital/video-110520
[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2020/10/21/googles-...