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Re:Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare by xirbeosbwo1234 on Monday February 15, 2021 @12:27PM (#26144819)
Bitcoin uses about 1/3 the energy of all datacenters in the world put together.

Datacenters use about 205 TWh/year.

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3531316/data-center-pow...

Bitcoin uses about 75 TWh/year.

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

And that's with everyone on the planet using normal money every day and just about no one using Bitcoin.

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Re:Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare by traeregan on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:17PM (#26145398)
There's some overlap there too. Some of the Bitcoin is being mined in some of those datacenters.
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Re:Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare by xirbeosbwo1234 on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:24PM (#26145490)
I doubt that it's enough to care about. The hardware is specialized and the needs are different from normal servers. Bitcoin miners care almost exclusively about cheap electricity, not uptime or latency or bandwidth or interconnect.

Some Bitcoin-related stuff is running in datacenters, no doubt, but it's a rounding error compared to the rest.

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