Alvez_48
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how many data centres have you built mate? I was the chief service architect for one for a government agency recently, part of the biggest migration project in europe at that time. Even modern data centres are extremely intensive. Better than they used to be using blade rooms with hot/cold aisle air pressure differences instead of fans, but it's still intensive.
In the UK they are at best hybrid, but many are still non-green. The huge amount of computing power used for bitcoin mining is not all renewables, particularly in countries like china where renewables are a tiny proportion of the overall energy generation. The thing is, whatever is diverted to fulfill demand from data centres, is not used elsewhere and the short fall is often fossil fuels.
It's kind of like the discussion we had on here a couple of weeks ago about electric cars. That as demand increases fossil fuels take up the slack.
Weirdly I've built a couple and work in around them often and everything you say is totally true undeniably. My point is more in regards to game theory and banking and the financial industry general absolutely dwarfing the power used by bitcoin and cryptos.
And you know I'm only winding you up calling you old and clunky, you know I have love for you.