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		sharpneli on Feb 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index The Visa kWh figure includes all that. The office workers and whatnot. The source is Visa corporate responsibility data. https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate-responsibil... that's for 2019. They include air travel and whatnot. Basically the whole energy consumption of the company. Also including building stuff etc. Visa doesn't share that in order to poke at Bitcoin. They share that because enviromentalism is hip nowadays. So they want to tell how they're improving their CO2 emissions as a company.

francoi8 on Feb 10, 2021 [–]

Back of the envelope calculations for the yearly operation of:

- Visa: 7 million GJ

- Bitcoin: 403 million GJ

oblio on Feb 10, 2021 | [–]

And I imagine Bitcoin is growing much faster than Visa.

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