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Re:Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive by AnonymousOne on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:26PM (#26666270)
is there anyway to track the total energy cost of the Filecoin ecosystem?
Re:Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive by jimpick on Thursday April 01, 2021 @08:29PM (#26667946)
Take the total storage size on the network, figure out the number of spinning disks, multiply by the power consumption per disk + typical overhead for servers and switches, etc. There’s power consumed by the processing for proofs on data ingest (bigger miners are more efficient at this), but not much afterwards.