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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
They are reporting that their solar and winds farms that produce 1.6 gw are now meeting 40% of their power requirements
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Here's
an article from Science that indicates as of 2018 global data center energy consumption was 205 twh. Here's
another article from 2020 from the IEA suggesting that data transmission networks use 200 twh annually.
It seems fairly suspect to me that by far the largest cloud services provider globally makes up 30% of the cloud services provided and yet only uses 0.004% of the energy consumption of the lowest of these three figures. It's also not like Amazon has a great reputation for being transparent about it's energy usage either. Do you really consider that credible? It seems to me something is likely mistaken or misrepresented.
Anyways, the ethereum network after the merge should apparently be running at around 0.1 twh annualized based on the data of the
ethereum energy consumption index. That would make the energy consumption of the eth network 0.048% of data center energy consumption, or 0.05% of data transmission networks energy consumption.
Edit: Reread the part about YouTube energy consumption and had misread it, so edited that stuff out for accuracy.