{"id":"tp-34160","type":"article-newspaper","title":"Bitcoin Mining Estimate Puts Electricity at 45.9% of Total Costs","author":"Simon Yoon","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/34160","datePublished":"2026-10-17T19:03:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-17T19:03:19.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"Vitalik Buterin’s comparison assigns 76% of estimated AI inference costs to computing capital, using a per-GPU-year measure that differs from mining’s cost per Bitcoin.","section":"Technology","references":[{"title":"mining companies’ use of data center capacity for AI workloads","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/27917"}]}