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This statement is tragicomic to say the least, and quite possibly paradoxical. Facebook's data center alone uses almost as much as all bitcoin miners annually. In fact, RedHad and its server / cloud solutions are responsible for running millions of servers that consume hundreds of times more energy than bitcoin miners. Education is failing a big time

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How are those statements possibly true?

https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+annual+energy+usage https://www.statista.com/statistics/580087/energy-use-of-fac...

Facebook uses 6% the amount of power, as all bitcoin miners.

The amount of power consumed by all of the cloud services we unknowingly use almost 24/7 is a hugely underappreciated problem, I will agree there.

>Education is failing a big time

Indeed.

If one is deep into the Bitcoin echo chamber, one could end up believing all sorts of things about bitcoin energy usage (in very extreme cases, they believe that bitcoin is a system of energy _storage_, though it's never made quite clear _how_). This level of confusion is fairly typical.

> Facebook's data center alone uses almost as much as all bitcoin miners annually. In fact, RedHad and its server / cloud solutions are responsible for running millions of servers that consume hundreds of times more energy than bitcoin miners.

Like so many bitcoin advocates, your argument relies on a unsourced statement that was deliberately invented and is not in any way close to the truth.

> Education is failing a big time

Arrogance and falsehoods go together in a big way.

Come on Facebook is used by billions of users...

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