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EIA to initiate data collection regarding electricity use by U.S. crypto miners (eia.gov)
3 points by geox 12 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Do they ask all industries for energy usage information yet?


Maybe while you're at it, ask FDA to collect manufacturing and sales counts so that we could have a relative hazard metric:

  (adverse event count) / (count sold)

  (adverse event count) / (count manufactured)
Why doesn't [FDA] have production and sales data from all of the competitors already?

TMK, datacenters in other industries, mines, and other industrial consumers of electricity with margin are not obligated to share internal information on inputs.

(It's a good idea to gauge the competition's energy efficiency, and they should have kwH/t operating figures; but other industries aren't yet also obligated to turn their hands and share such private operating data.)


Other data that might be of interest but may not be acceptable to demand from competing government and industry firms: dry cleaning costs, armored bank bag services costs, fraud prosecution costs, cash and coinage replacement costs, transaction cost per 1 USD and per 1 kwh, transaction time, level of ensured backup redundancy, how much of the waste heat from their datacenters they're recovering in the interest of efficiency, etc.

But then are they soliciting bids or competitive intelligence from competitors for an eventual USD stablecoin?




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