An idle CPU consumes (relatively) little power. I get that you're "wasting" potential computation power, but we've spent years making auto-scaling CPUs to conse

An idle CPU consumes (relatively) little power. I get that you're "wasting" potential computation power, but we've spent years making auto-scaling CPUs to conserve electricity. On clouds, that CPU is probably even oversubscribed, so the idle time is already incorporated into the price. I don't even think it makes any sense in theory. In practice it's even worse. There's not a sane company in the world that would let some random bitcoin miner run on the same host as their mission critical system anyway.