Bitcoin miners win legal battle to keep mum about energy use
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Bitcoin mines are energy-hungry data farms.
  • Trev625@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    This is dumb but only because we don’t worry about energy use any other time. Tons of places in my city keep all their lights on 24/7 unnecessarily, we all are sitting on a “useless” social media, video games and movies and music are all energy uses. I don’t want the government to start limiting energy use on things it deems unimportant. Who gets to decide what counts? Just implement a carbon tax and energy use will go down if people don’t want to pay. We don’t need to police everyone’s usage, we just need the cost to actually reflect the externalities.

    • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I want to agree with you, but crypto mining is orders of magnitude more energy than the worst lazy energy leaks.

    • Pantherina@feddit.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      So true. These fu**ing schools keeping their lights on the whole night and vacations, with their old lamps, while people like me measure their lamps and turn everything off…

      Also the amount of 4K or more useless data transfer, ads, unnecessary youtube videos where there could be only audio (if they made that free, you can use any FOSS client and do the same)

  • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    […] use roughly as much electricity as all of the nation’s home computers combined

    Bitcoin mining also risks stressing out the power grid in Texas, a crypto hub in the US where the state’s grid operator has paid Riot more than $31 million in energy credits to curb its electricity use during heatwave-induced demand spikes. Bitcoin mining has also brought sputtering fossil fuel power plants back to life and raised electricity costs for some residents in New York.

    It’s clear why the survey is necessary.

    Why did they make it an emergency survey in the first place? Is there no “normal” survey alternative?