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"Scientists have predicted that by 2040, almost 50 percent of the world’s electric power will be used in computing. What’s more, this projection was made before the sudden explosion of generative AI. The amount of computing resources used to train the largest AI models has been doubling roughly every 6 months for more than the past decade. At this rate, by 2030 training a single artificial-intelligence model would take one hundred times as much computing resources as the combined annual resources of the current top ten supercomputers. Simply put, computing will require colossal amounts of power, soon exceeding what our planet can provide. "

So is Bitcoin still "evil"?



There are better alternatives. Not evil, just wasteful.


None of those figures sounds even remotely plausible.


Agreed. All they’ve done is explain why and when the party will end.




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