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>after July 1, 2021, the kWh per year limit becomes 50, 60, and 75. RTX 3080 consumes 250W when mining, so it would hit those limits in 10 days?

• chroem- 5y ago
  There are a lot more gamers than there are bitcoin miners, so it ends up balancing out: https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-playstation-cloud-gaming-environment-nightmare/ https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-playstation-cloud-gaming-en... https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/video-games-electricity-carbon-footprint/ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/video-games-... We need to ban gaming if we want to solve the climate emergency.
  • therouwboat 5y ago
    That motherjones article says pc gaming consumes 75 TWh per year while just bitcoin is estimated to use 120 TWh. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952
    • chroem- 5y ago
      Less than a factor of two difference is "approximately the same order of magnitude", as I originally stated.
  • smolder 5y ago
    Yes and we should also ban televisions and automobiles and espresso machines and loud music and nighttime lighting and virtual reality and air conditioning a room to below 74 degrees.