Re:Bitcoin consumes more electricity than Argentina
by alex_young on Thursday February 11, 2021 @07:39AM
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Your first link seems to imply that bandwidth use is the same as data center use. YouTube and other streaming platforms are generally served from edge locations and use last mile bandwidth and do not constitute large CPU costs when compared to bandwidth.
This comparison is almost certainly off by orders of magnitude.
This comparison is almost certainly off by orders of magnitude.