Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoOver 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoinarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square151fedilinkarrow-up1425arrow-down132cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1393arrow-down1external-linkOver 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoinarstechnica.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square151fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareM0oP0o@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·7 months ago2% still seems really high.
minus-squareicedterminal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-27 months agoIt’s absurdly high. Context: The US consumed ~4 Trillion kWh for 2022. If you take 2% of that, you get 80 Billion kWh.
minus-squareM0oP0o@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agooh so more then 160,000,000,000 lightbulbs.
2% still seems really high.
It’s absurdly high.
Context: The US consumed ~4 Trillion kWh for 2022. If you take 2% of that, you get 80 Billion kWh.
oh so more then 160,000,000,000 lightbulbs.