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>after July 1, 2021, the kWh per year limit becomes 50, 60, and 75.

RTX 3080 consumes 250W when mining, so it would hit those limits in 10 days?

There are a lot more gamers than there are bitcoin miners, so it ends up balancing out:

https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-playstation-cloud-gaming-en... https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/11/video-games-...

We need to ban gaming if we want to solve the climate emergency.

That motherjones article says pc gaming consumes 75 TWh per year while just bitcoin is estimated to use 120 TWh.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952

Less than a factor of two difference is "approximately the same order of magnitude", as I originally stated.

Yes and we should also ban televisions and automobiles and espresso machines and loud music and nighttime lighting and virtual reality and air conditioning a room to below 74 degrees.

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