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It's still wasted energy. If it wasn't used on bitcoins, it would have been used on other things - some of which had to be powered by fossil fuels.
How does that even make sense? Renewable is cheaper than burning petrol, of course there's a shortage.
I don't think you understand how the electric grid works if you say that wasting energy into creating heat is the way to go.
It may very well be renewable. I'm really more referring to the inefficient way in which the sums are calculated. Those data centers get warmish.
And yeah, AI is just the next thing we decided to punish our GPUs with. Crazy how we've used that part of the computer these last few decades...
I'm more engaged in a chat gpt session that I am staying up till 4 am watching line graphs of crypto prices, guilty as charged 😁. Not sure what comment it makes about society other than "we seem pretty lonely, everything ok?"