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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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