nixb on Nostr: In blockchain mining, electricity is transformed into cryptographic hashes to ...

In blockchain mining, electricity is transformed into cryptographic hashes to manufacture trust; in a cloud data center, electricity is transformed into general-purpose computation to manufacture business value.

Reminds me of Barroso and Hölzle (2009, p. 39), 'Datacenters are essentially very large devices that consume electrical power and produce heat'.

Sounds like mining 101 if we can extract the value of that energy input..

reference:
Barroso, L.A. and Hölzle, U. (2009) The datacenter as a computer: an introduction to the design of warehouse-scale machines. San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01722-3.