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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by JAlexoid on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:08PM (#29812648)
> 58,615,905 kWh of electricity in one month

That's 80 kW of continuous power usage over a month.

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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by caf on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @05:35PM (#29816086)
You're out by 3 orders of magnitude, it's equivalent to an ~80MW continuous load.
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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by shagie on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:51PM (#29819555)
... And for comparison, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000-watt_society

China uses 1.5 kWh/household... and if I did my math correct again: 54,000 homes in the power use that a household China would use. Or basing it on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_co... (note change in units) a per capita use of 20,300 people in Iran.

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Re:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity by JAlexoid on Friday January 07, 2022 @01:33PM (#29842854)
You're right, I forgot that it was kWh already.
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