Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 months agohow much is the Fediverse’s energy usage compared to those of AI services or cryptocurrency farms?
Practically 0.
Comment on The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 months agohow much is the Fediverse’s energy usage compared to those of AI services or cryptocurrency farms?
Practically 0.
halm@leminal.space 9 months ago
That’s my intuition too. Would like to see sources to back it up though.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 months ago
Well this site says that the bitcoin network uses around 91 TWh annually.
According to fediverse.observer, there’s roughly 21000 Fediverse servers online.
Let’s just assume that a server on the Fediverse uses 500W. That’s quite a high estimate btw, but we can overestimate, it’s fine.
That gives roughly 0.09 TWh annually, or about 0.1% of the bitcoin network. And remember that’s an overestimate and remember that that only considers bitcoin and no other cryptocurrencies.
halm@leminal.space 9 months ago
👍 That confirms my own assumptions, thanks for the link and estimated comparison!