The Energy Information Agency is starting the process to require cryptocurrency miners to submit energy consumption data after a previous attempt faced legal challenges.
Makes me wonder how much energy is wasted by people just leaving their desktop computers on.
I know I used to be bad about that and eventually made a concerted effort to always sleep or turn it off.
I’m also glad LED lights are a thing now. I’m a lot better at turning lights off now as well, but at least if one gets forgotten on now it’s like 10x less waste.
Tangent to leaving FO76 open…
Makes me wonder how much energy is wasted by people just leaving their desktop computers on.
I know I used to be bad about that and eventually made a concerted effort to always sleep or turn it off.
I’m also glad LED lights are a thing now. I’m a lot better at turning lights off now as well, but at least if one gets forgotten on now it’s like 10x less waste.
I know people who just leave games running in the background for a whole day while they’re gone. I honestly have no idea why someone would do that