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The article was about electricity consumption, so in the context of environmental impact, or consumer market impact, it is a risk.
by INTPenis 3y ago
The article was about electricity consumption, so in the context of environmental impact, or consumer market impact, it is a risk.
- Gormo 3y agoConsumption of electricity has negligible environmental impact. The relevant discussion here would pertain to considerations around generating power, regardless of what downstream use cases the power is being applied to. Pretty much all activity in modern society is going to consume electricity, and overall demand is not going to be decreasing in the first place, so it seems a bit silly to look at this from the demand side: we're always going to need more and more power, and the focus is properly on how to generate power in a clean and scalable way regardless of what it's being used for. Consumer market impact is an interesting topic, though, if there are massive spikes in demand that could drive prices up for other users of electricity. It will be important to ensure to minimize artificial impediments to the expansion of the supply side to mitigate that risk.