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> So it makes some sense that they would ban crypto mining: permitting it would significantly increase overall energy utilization and could quickly make their b
by kurikuri 2y ago
> So it makes some sense that they would ban crypto mining: permitting it would significantly increase overall energy utilization and could quickly make their business model unprofitable.
Then adding an energy usage limit would make more sense instead of a broad-usage ban, and it is significantly less invasive to examine a server’s energy expenditure rather than the server’s productive use.
Also, how do they investigate and enforce this ban? If it is possible to get banned for ‘trading,’ does this mean they are inspecting all communication and activity on instances they host?
- voidwtf 2y agoSo now they have to add individual energy usage monitoring so a minority of individuals mine/trade bitcoin? The environmental ethics behind proof-of-work crypto is dubious at best. Maybe they’ve made a choice not to support crypto operations for ethical reasons. this also doesn’t take into account the possibility that they’d have to increase their overall electrical capacity (amps), load distribution equipment, UPS, and generators. at cost to all other users, less runtime, more distributed cost, etc…
- sph 2y agoWhat does that have to do with them forbidding plotting or simply storing crypto data? How is that energy intensive?
- 7bit 2y agoAdding energy usage limits is much more complicated than you make it sound. And it would impact many more use-cases than cryptocurrency. It's much easier to ban crypto-usage and lose a hand full of customers, than implementing limitations that will impact everyone, which might cause them losing many, many customers.