@misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoJust 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumptionwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square274fedilinkarrow-up11.01Karrow-down130cross-posted to: environment@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanstechnology@lemmy.world
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minus-square@exhaust_fan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish-4•5 months agoBanks use negligible electricity lmao
minus-square@Snekeyes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish12•5 months agoYeah. 600k Branches, 1 million atms, data centers…
minus-square@orrk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoyup, tho they also serve more people than crypto bros, about 100,000 times as many
minus-square@clgoh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoIncluding everything, about a million times less energy per transaction than crypto.
minus-square@maness300@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•5 months ago the banking industry Might want to brush up on that reading comprehension.
minus-square@Dra@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish5•5 months agoI think this is the most forced ‘lmao’ I have ever read
Banks use negligible electricity lmao
Yeah. 600k Branches, 1 million atms, data centers…
yup, tho they also serve more people than crypto bros, about 100,000 times as many
Including everything, about a million times less energy per transaction than crypto.
Might want to brush up on that reading comprehension.
I think this is the most forced ‘lmao’ I have ever read