therealjcdentonFeb 10, 2024

Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?

https://lemmy.zip/post/9725950

Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? - Lemmy.zip

Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong

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The bigger operations already are using so called green energy. There are large operations in the north west where hydro is abundant and cheap.

This might be a few years off but I am considering setting up a farm where I am. We are planning on a very large solar installation at some point in the near future and we will probably have way more supply than we can use. I wouldn’t mine btc but running some other algo hardware and throwing it at nicehash or other smart pools would probably be a good use of that power assuming I can get the hardware cheap enough.

Feb 10, 2024 at 5:48pmWeb