Actually -- and this is insane -- the amount of electricity required to train DeepSeek-V3 would power the Bitcoin network for all of 5 minutes.

DeepSeek would have to fully train a brand new V3 every week to approach the kinds of power consumption numbers that individual bitcoin mining facilities are doing.

The energy use from BTC is ludicrous.

(I'm assuming 155 TWh/yr for Bitcoin, using the low-end estimate from here: https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/energy/bit... )