DATA MINING/HARVESTING WILL CONSUME 20% OF THE WORLD'S POWER BY 2025

Thanks to Kate Kheel for putting these together.


Data Centres Will Consume 20% of the World’s Power By 2025  Feb. 2018 | Data Center Market News
"The rapid adoption of data-hungry machines and services is driving the need for more power to keep the lights on in the data centres of the world.
As analysts estimate as many as 50 billion devices to be connected by 2020, with some statistics pointing to more than 100 billion a further five years down the line, new alarming research suggests that data centres will be one of the biggest energy consumers on the planet, beating many countries’ energy consumption levels.
According to a paper to be published by US researchers before the end of the year, the ICT industry is posed to be responsible for up to 3.5% of global emissions by 2020, with this value potentially escalating to 14% by 2040, according to Climate Change News." 
https://www.gvaworldwide.com/media/1194/datasource-february-2018.pdf

Data Centres Of The World Will Consume 1/5 Of Earth’s Power By 2025  Dec. 2017 | João Marques Lima
"Alarming new research suggests that failure to source renewable energy could make data centres one of the biggest polluters in just seven years.
The rapid adoption of data-hungry machines and services is driving the need for more power to keep the lights on in the data centres of the world."
https://data-economy.com/data-centres-world-will-consume-1-5-earths-power-2025/

‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025  Nov. 12th, 2017 | John Vidal | Climate Home News
"The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering global attempts to meet climate change targets and straining grids as demand by power-hungry server farms storing digital data from billions of smartphones, tablets and internet-connected devices grows exponentially.”
https://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/12/11/tsunami-data-consume-one-fifth-global-electricity-2025/

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‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025  Dec. 2017 | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/tsunami-of-data-could-consume-fifth-global-electricity-by-2025


Bitcoin mining consumes more energy than 159 countries  Nov. 27th, 2017 | Peter Martinez | CBS News
"The rise in its currency value has given way to a spike in electrical consumption for the powerful computers used to "mine" more bitcoins, according to a new report. Consumption in the last month increased by nearly 30 percent.
In other words, it takes a whopping 29.05 TWh (terawatt hours, equal to one million megawatt hours) annually to operate the energy-hungry computers and networks that power bitcoin transactions. That's about 0.13 percent of total global electricity consumption, according to Digiconomist. That would rank bitcoin as 61st if it were its own country."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-energy-consumption/