Up To 800 Tons Of CO2 Per Year: Assessing The Environmental Impact Of Web Mining
In 2018, web miners, applications that run in a user’s browser and mine cryptocurrencies for profit, could have consumed as much as 18.8 gigawatts of electric power, according to Kaspersky research on the economic and environmental impact of web mining. This makes it comparable to the power consumption rate of Poland and means the environmental […]
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