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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)

submitted 6 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] darthfabulous42069@lemm.ee 34 points 6 months ago (17 children)

You'd think with all of the money they're pulling in, they'd invest in solar panels or something to lower their overhead.

Or am I making the mistake of approaching the situation with common sense?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Solar panels give about 100 watts per square meters best case, practically you'll be on half of that.. With the amounts of electricity they use, they'll need to cover entire nature reserves with solar panels to feed their miners. It's simply not practical

[–] darthfabulous42069@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Wind turbines? Solar thermal? Nuclear in exchange for all of those Bitcoins, perhaps?

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