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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-n
by 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 agoThat 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 agoLess than a factor of two difference is "approximately the same order of magnitude", as I originally stated.
- smolder 5y agoYes 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.