• jaemo@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    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?”

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      10 months ago

      That’s just proof of work chains like bitcoin. Ethereum doesn’t have intense calculations and nodes instead use their staked money as liability to offer proof of transactions.