Bitcoin Mining Estimate Puts Electricity at 45.9% of Total Costs
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October 17, 2026
19:03
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Vitalik Buterin's comparison assigns 76% of estimated AI inference costs to computing capital, using a per-GPU-year measure that differs from mining's cost per Bitcoin.
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