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A living computer? This AI made from interconnected "mini-brains" requires a million times less power than ChatGPT!
To put this into perspective, training a single large language model like GPT-3, a precursor to the…
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Crypto miners used the same amount of electricity as all of Australia last year
In the US alone, crypto mining uses 0.6% to 2.3% of the country's electricity demand — as much as e…
Aruni Soni
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Bitcoin mining consumes 0.5% of all electricity used globally and 7 times Google's total usage, new report says
As bitcoin mining becomes more popular and competitive, it's consuming more and more energy across …
Eugene Kim
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ChatGPT uses 17,000 times the amount of electricity than the average US household does daily: report
An average US household is using around 29 kilowatt-hours of electricity while ChatGPT is using mor…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum's merge slashes global energy consumption by 0.2%, making it one of the biggest decarbonization events ever
A report from the Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute found that the merge dramatically reduced Ethereu…
Phil Rosen
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Climate crisis: Net zero goal still alive, says IEA
Globally, the rate at which people are installing solar panels and buying electric vehicles is "per…
PTI
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The US unseats China as world's biggest bitcoin miner, accounting for a third of the global hash rate after Beijing's crackdown
The increase in the share of the US came after China in September banned all cryptocurrency transac…
Isabelle Lee
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It’s not easy for India to curb its coal ‘addiction’ like the UN wants it to
“There is an addiction to coal that we need to overcome because it remains a major threat in r…
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Bitcoin's record-high price means its energy use is soaring again - just as the world tries to tackle climate change at COP26
A higher bitcoin price means more people want to "mine" it - and that means more computers guzzling…
Harry Robertson
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Bitcoin mining isn't just consuming energy, it's also generating 272 grams of e-waste with every transaction
The study indicated that Bitcoin could produce as much as 64.4 metric kilotons of e-waste, ove…