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Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)
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The U.S government wants to crack down on the ballooning energy consumption of Bitcoin miners.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Yes, let's do away with the over consumption and waste of energy, if we are going to point and blame one thing we should highlight the others too!

AI models are just as bad:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231010133607.htm