Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

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Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption
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>At scale

what does that mean?

meaning PoW is not such a problem when applied to create consensus in local or niche blockchains as the difficulty (and energy consumption) is orders of magnitude lower. For widely used coins it's a terrible choice.