There’s a power struggle brewing over crypto and AI — literally

Both Bitcoin mining and AI training use a lot of compute – and a lot of electricity. There may only be room for one, per Axios:

An International Energy Agency report last month estimates that data centers, crypto and AI accounted for roughly 2% of global power demand in 2022 — and that could double by 2026.

Can they co-exist? Or will they fight to the finish for the last electron?

Read the report here.

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