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Are there any estimates of how much power crypto mining has consumed and how much running all of the Facebook/Instagram/whatever servers has consumed? Best i f
by KronisLV 5y ago
Are there any estimates of how much power crypto mining has consumed and how much running all of the Facebook/Instagram/whatever servers has consumed?
Best i found for Bitcoin was 40-100 TWh per year: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
And for Facebook it appeared that they used 5140 GWh in 2019: https://www.statista.com/statistics/580087/energy-use-of-facebook/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/580087/energy-use-of-fac...
So essentially:
Entity Consumption (GWh)
Facebook 5 140
Bitcoin 40 000 - 100 000
I wouldn't have expected Facebook to consume comparatively so little energy, if i'm doing conversions right.