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> I've been running >120k gpus to mine ETH So when the sea levels rise and destroy my home, I'll know who to blame. Thank you.

yieldcrv 4y ago
for a fraction of a percent of the problem that isn't even in use anymore? misdirected angst
- esperent 4y ago
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  - latchkey 4y ago
    Ever travel to SE Asia? There are millions of kids that go to gaming centers. They are rooms in shacks, full of computers and they sit there 24/7 playing games online. They are burning electricity non-stop and this is majority coal based energy.
  - yieldcrv 4y ago
    “I cant believe you used energy in a way I disagreed with two years ago” never really seen that in another context
latchkey 4y ago
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- jeromegv 4y ago
  That hydro that went to you couldn’t be shared to the connected network and they had to power the rest of the network with gas instead. Unless you built your own dam, which I really doubt you did. Also unused hydro accumulates in the lake, so it’s not like hydro was wasting away and needed to be used.
  - latchkey 4y ago
    The only users of the power in the area are data centers. The power goes directly there. The same data centers you're using to access services on the internet. There is more than enough hydro in the area so they don't have to turn on the gas. Very large river based hydro and the dams were built long ago.
    - bunabhucan 4y ago
      I don't know if you know this but electricity can travel through conductors to other places.
      - ifni 4y ago
        Not everything is connected to the grid, you know. Here's an example of a single hydro dam a LONG way from the grid which (pre-Cryptocurrency gold rush) had 12 MW of unused power generation capacity plus they were talking up the possibility of adding an additional 20 MW of generation. https://www.hydroreview.com/business-finance/boralex-acquires-145-mw-ocean-falls-hydro-station-in-bc/ https://www.hydroreview.com/business-finance/boralex-acquire... It's not going to be the only one.
        esperent 4y ago
        > It's not going to be the only one. It probably is the only one, or at least an unusual outlier.
        IshKebab 4y ago
        Almost everything is connected to the grid. And even if it isn't... Even if it is an isolated hydro plant only connected to a data centre, other useful digital services could have run there instead. There's really no getting away from the fact that cryptocurrencies waste huge amounts of energy, significantly contributing to climate change just to move money from idiots to arseholes. Not just energy too - think how many resources it takes to make 120k GPUs. He should feel deep guilt about it.
pxmpxm 4y ago
At 1-3mm year, I am highly confident you'll be long dead before that happens. 120k gpus is like what USD50mio capex at least? Did you even get any of that back w/o accounting for electricity?
- latchkey 4y ago
  Oh yea, but we wasted it on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35206003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35206003

yieldcrv 4y ago

for a fraction of a percent of the problem that isn't even in use anymore? misdirected angst

esperent 4y ago
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- latchkey 4y ago
  Ever travel to SE Asia? There are millions of kids that go to gaming centers. They are rooms in shacks, full of computers and they sit there 24/7 playing games online. They are burning electricity non-stop and this is majority coal based energy.
- yieldcrv 4y ago
  “I cant believe you used energy in a way I disagreed with two years ago” never really seen that in another context

latchkey 4y ago

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jeromegv 4y ago
That hydro that went to you couldn’t be shared to the connected network and they had to power the rest of the network with gas instead. Unless you built your own dam, which I really doubt you did. Also unused hydro accumulates in the lake, so it’s not like hydro was wasting away and needed to be used.
- latchkey 4y ago
  The only users of the power in the area are data centers. The power goes directly there. The same data centers you're using to access services on the internet. There is more than enough hydro in the area so they don't have to turn on the gas. Very large river based hydro and the dams were built long ago.
  - bunabhucan 4y ago
    I don't know if you know this but electricity can travel through conductors to other places.
    - ifni 4y ago
      Not everything is connected to the grid, you know. Here's an example of a single hydro dam a LONG way from the grid which (pre-Cryptocurrency gold rush) had 12 MW of unused power generation capacity plus they were talking up the possibility of adding an additional 20 MW of generation. https://www.hydroreview.com/business-finance/boralex-acquires-145-mw-ocean-falls-hydro-station-in-bc/ https://www.hydroreview.com/business-finance/boralex-acquire... It's not going to be the only one.
      - esperent 4y ago
        > It's not going to be the only one. It probably is the only one, or at least an unusual outlier.
      - IshKebab 4y ago
        Almost everything is connected to the grid. And even if it isn't... Even if it is an isolated hydro plant only connected to a data centre, other useful digital services could have run there instead. There's really no getting away from the fact that cryptocurrencies waste huge amounts of energy, significantly contributing to climate change just to move money from idiots to arseholes. Not just energy too - think how many resources it takes to make 120k GPUs. He should feel deep guilt about it.

pxmpxm 4y ago

At 1-3mm year, I am highly confident you'll be long dead before that happens. 120k gpus is like what USD50mio capex at least? Did you even get any of that back w/o accounting for electricity?

latchkey 4y ago
Oh yea, but we wasted it on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35206003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35206003