[United Nations report: Bitcoin "mining" has increased global energy consumption 34 times in 8 years] Golden Finance reported that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) recently released the latest "2024 Digital Economy Report". The report stated that although digitalization has driven global economic growth, the impact on the environment is also becoming increasingly serious. The report said that it is estimated that the energy consumption of global data centers in 2022 will be equivalent to that of France, and the global energy consumption generated by Bitcoin "mining" has increased by about 34 times between 2015 and 2023. This puts great pressure on local power grids. For example, data centers in Singapore accounted for about 7% of the country's electricity demand in 2020, while in Ireland, this proportion was as high as 18% in 2022.