What uses more electricity with the most return

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those my friend, are backslashes. Glad I could help :)

Asking about “return” is kinda useless in this context. AI is frequently being integrated into things that people didn’t ask for, and making them more shitty.

And while Bitcoin mining does generate a return, there is nothing inherent in cryptocurrency that says it must consume electricity to generate these returns. Ethereum transitioned to an algorithm which secures its network just as well for a fraction of the energy cost. Bitcoin only consumes so much energy because its developers are stubborn.

But to answer your question, people think that AI applications will consume fully half of all datacenter power by the end of this year, and if it does it will likely have a higher energy footprint than BTC.

Neither give you any return at this point unless you’re working at scale