this is correct, I think solidity doesn't even run on a gpu at all The energy usage of ethereum comes from the proof-of-work DAG, not the solidity execution. Y

this is correct, I think solidity doesn't even run on a gpu at all The energy usage of ethereum comes from the proof-of-work DAG, not the solidity execution. You can easily see this by running a (non mining) ethereum node, any decent CPU will churn through the transactions in blocks in a matter of milliseconds (~200 ms per block), not the 13 seconds it takes to generate that block