Data Stories: Power Sources and Power Drains
Understand the global sources of electricity and how much power is spent to mine bitcoins with these charts.
- By Upside Staff
- June 6, 2018
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This Tableau workbook gives you a quick overview of the primary power sources across the U.S.
Curious about power on a larger scale? Resource Watch is a site devoted to providing transparent data about global sustainability. This link will show you power plants by capacity and fuel type, but there are hundreds of data sets to explore.
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The rise of bitcoin isn’t just affecting financial markets; the amount of power consumed in mining bitcoins has been rising steadily. As of last November, bitcoin mining was using more electricity than 159 individual countries.