Lot of gamers, and the displays add a few more watts each to the total.
Fermi estimate: 10 million latest Xboxes, used for 1 hour per day.
Power estimates seem to vary from 120 W to 315 W, let's say 200 W including display. That's 2 GWh/day. Probably similar for Playstation, or at least close enough for a Fermi estimate. I'm going to guess similar for PC gaming also.
Smartphones are what, about 1 W? But a few billion of them? 1 hour per day makes that another GWh/day?
So probably about 7 GWh/day for Xbox + Playstation + PC + mobile, 2.5 TWh/year.
Bitcoin is estimated to use 131 TWh/year according to Wikipedia.
There have been see scientific prayers on power us usage snd PC gaming (only) and it comes similar to crypto usage. There are not many things that take tons of energy - heating, cooling, crypto, gaming etc.
ben_w|3 years ago
Fermi estimate: 10 million latest Xboxes, used for 1 hour per day.
Power estimates seem to vary from 120 W to 315 W, let's say 200 W including display. That's 2 GWh/day. Probably similar for Playstation, or at least close enough for a Fermi estimate. I'm going to guess similar for PC gaming also.
Smartphones are what, about 1 W? But a few billion of them? 1 hour per day makes that another GWh/day?
So probably about 7 GWh/day for Xbox + Playstation + PC + mobile, 2.5 TWh/year.
Bitcoin is estimated to use 131 TWh/year according to Wikipedia.
Yeah, you're right, it's not even close.
Dma54rhs|3 years ago