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Re:Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against bl... by endisneigh on Friday January 28, 2022 @07:43PM (#30122513)
> In total, the entire Solana network — with 1,196 validator nodes and an estimated 20,000,000,000 transactions — uses an estimated 11,051,066 kWh per year. This is the equivalent of the average electricity usage of 1038 American households.

https://solana.com/news/solana-energy-usage-report-november-...

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Re:Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against bl... by sib301 on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:00PM (#30123366)
How much does AWS use for a comparable number of transactions? Your numbers don’t mean anything without additional context.
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Re:Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against bl... by endisneigh on Saturday January 29, 2022 @12:49AM (#30124092)
> …you'd resist the urge to jump to conclusions, you'd find with a couple of minutes of research that its energy usage is comparable to a few average households.

>> …uses an estimated 11,051,066 kWh per year. This is the equivalent of the average electricity usage of 1038 American households.

>>> How much does AWS use for a comparable number of transactions? Your numbers don’t mean anything without additional context.

lol

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Re:Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against bl... by pcthrowaway on Saturday January 29, 2022 @03:19AM (#30124718)
Fair enough, the energy usage is an order of magnitude higher (but other proof of stake cryptos with fewer validators do run on a much leaner network, though I'm not saying this is necessarily a good thing)

From your own link though, with the current usage of the Solana network, a transaction consumes about as much energy as a google search. Not exactly something worth drawing out the energy pitchforks over.

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