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Bitcoin Mining Estimate Puts Electricity at 45.9% of Total Costs

TokenPost·October 17, 2026·1 min read
Bitcoin Mining Estimate Puts Electricity at 45.9% of Total Costs

A Bitcoin mining estimate puts electricity at 45.9% of total costs, while Vitalik Buterin's comparison assigns 76% of estimated AI inference costs to computing capital. The analysis uses a per-GPU-year measure that differs from mining's cost per Bitcoin, highlighting the different cost structures between the two industries.

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