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Are there any estimates of how much power crypto mining has consumed and how much running all of the Facebook/Instagram/whatever servers has consumed?

Best i found for Bitcoin was 40-100 TWh per year: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

And for Facebook it appeared that they used 5140 GWh in 2019: https://www.statista.com/statistics/580087/energy-use-of-fac...

So essentially:

  Entity    Consumption (GWh)
  Facebook   5 140
  Bitcoin   40 000 - 100 000
I wouldn't have expected Facebook to consume comparatively so little energy, if i'm doing conversions right.


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