#FMI calls for an 85% increase in the price of electricity for miners of #Bitcoin
For the financial institution, taxes will guide mining companies to reduce CO2 emissions "in line with global objectives."
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) accuses Bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence (AI) data centers of being responsible for 1% of carbon emissions worldwide due to their electricity consumption.
According to a recent IMF blog post, Bitcoin mining and data centers consumed 2% of the world's electrical energy in 2022. That figure could rise to 3.5% in three years, based on projections made by the International Energy Agency (IEA). This would be equivalent to the consumption of Japan, which ranks fifth among the countries that demand the most electricity in the world.
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