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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/35313
by xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago
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-power-consumption-holds-steady.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/3531316/data-center-pow...
Bitcoin uses about 75 TWh/year.
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption 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.
- traeregan 6y agoThere's some overlap there too. Some of the Bitcoin is being mined in some of those datacenters.
- xirbeosbwo1234 6y agoI 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.