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I think Bitcoin does a lot more damage than your AV scan does. At least you are incentivized for profit reasons not to let your energy bill get too out of contr

I think Bitcoin does a lot more damage than your AV scan does. At least you are incentivized for profit reasons not to let your energy bill get too out of control, whereas Bitcoin flips those incentives and actively rewards energy wastage. But if your company is serious about reducing emissions, they could consider solar/storage or carbon offsets. I think what hardware you buy and where the energy comes from is more important than how you actually use it.

giraffe_lady 5y ago
Yeah or take the case recently where airlines were flying empty planes around europe to keep their airport slots or something. You could spend years overhauling efficiency in the entire global tech industry and succeed and it would be undone by a couple cases like that. Cases like that happen all the time: we mostly consider acting on economic incentives valid unless it's specifically illegal. Which is not to say this isn't a thing we should do eventually, or maybe even start thinking about now. I haven't done the math on this but my guess is we could balance out the carbon cost of all datacenters by shutting down a few dozen coal power plants. We are building new coal power plants.