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Re:Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power by realreality on Friday February 09, 2024 @11:46AM (#39316848)
> Like, no one thinks data centers for AWS are bad.

In a world of dwindling EROI and exponential carbon emissions, all data centers are bad.

If we cared about the future at all, we'd be switching them off and triaging our energy use.

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Re:Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power by FireBeyond on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:12PM (#39317310)
... like calling out BTC's egregious waste of electricity?

Where 75,502,165,623,893/75,502,165,623,894th of the work is literally thrown away.

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Re:Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power by realreality on Friday February 09, 2024 @02:38PM (#39319442)
Yes, crypto miners should be among the first servers to switch off.
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