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| jonpaul:
On a more strategic level, Any stats on yearly energy consumption in USA/EU/UK/World for Bitcoin/cryptcurreny mining storage of all data on servers? CPU/GPU consumption of all servers? Power for maint of internet and link bandwidth? I think that 90..99 % off all energy use for internet/comm/mobile energy use is consumed for garbage videos/games/cat photos/porn/fraude This the mining system mentioned here is perhsp using 0.000001% of the energy. Can we know how much energy is wasted by government caused bureaucracy, wars, regulations, taxes, corruption? Jon |
| SiliconWizard:
Beyond what Jon said - indeed a gigantic fraction of the computing energy used worldwide is for spam, shit content, fraud and corruption - a relevant study should compare the overall cost of maintaining cryptocurrencies with the cost of maintaining regular currencies, which is done differently, but also has a gigantic direct, but mostly indirect cost. How much do you think is the cost of "forcing" trust in currencies that would probably have long collapsed otherwise? |
| Someone:
--- Quote from: jonpaul on March 18, 2023, 11:54:11 pm ---On a more strategic level, Any stats on yearly energy consumption in USA/EU/UK/World for Bitcoin/cryptcurreny mining storage of all data on servers? CPU/GPU consumption of all servers? Power for maint of internet and link bandwidth? --- End quote --- You can readily find sources for estimates of those globally , 0.5-1% for all crypto vs 1% for all other data centres, or 5-10% for all computer/IT/network use. |
| felixd:
https://energyinnovation.org/2020/03/17/how-much-energy-do-data-centers-really-use/ What's most important cooling is around 40% of OPEX with average PUE at around 1.6 in average DC. We are dropping PUE to less than 1.04 with potential to heat recovery and reusage (huge potential) |
| madires:
What impact does the mineral oil have on optical connections, e.g. SC? |
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