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by ben_w
1374 days ago
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Lot of gamers, and the displays add a few more watts each to the total. Fermi estimate: 10 million latest Xboxes, used for 1 hour per day. Power estimates seem to vary from 120 W to 315 W, let's say 200 W including display. That's 2 GWh/day. Probably similar for Playstation, or at least close enough for a Fermi estimate. I'm going to guess similar for PC gaming also. Smartphones are what, about 1 W? But a few billion of them? 1 hour per day makes that another GWh/day? So probably about 7 GWh/day for Xbox + Playstation + PC + mobile, 2.5 TWh/year. Bitcoin is estimated to use 131 TWh/year according to Wikipedia. Yeah, you're right, it's not even close. |
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