US environment agency says it can regulate crypto farms - are datacenters next?
As it stands, most hyperscale and cloud providers usually don't disclose the design capacity of their facilities, but it's not unusual for a datacenter campus to consume in the neighborhood of 60 megawatts.on a bill to address the environmental implications of both crypto mining and conventional datacenters.by analysts at the Uptime Institute, regulation on datacenters may be more meaningful. While the OTSP report estimated that crypto mining accounted for 0.9-1.
This transition, they note, is expected to reduce Ethereum's mining energy consumption by more than 99 percent."Given that most, if not all, enterprise blockchain deployments use proof-of-stake validation and given the ability of proof-of-work infrastructure to move quickly to locations with minimal regulation and energy costs, much of this anticipated energy growth may not materialize.
Senator Whitehouse's proposed legislation would impact any public or private datacenter or crypto farm with more than 100 kilowatts of equipment to report their consumption data to the Energy Information Administration. To put that in context, 100kW is roughly equivalent to 17 standard racks running at 6kW a piece. However, for datacenters engaged in AI or ML workloads that could be as few as 15 high-end GPU servers.
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