Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoOver 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoinarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square146fedilinkarrow-up1416arrow-down130cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1386arrow-down1external-linkOver 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoinarstechnica.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square146fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareM0oP0o@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down2·10 months ago2% still seems really high.
minus-squareicedterminal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-210 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-up1·10 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.