Currently, bitcoin uses about 1 out of every 5,500 Watts being generated on the ...

carbocation on Dec 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin Bubble Burst will warn you if Bitcoin is a...

Currently, bitcoin uses about 1 out of every 5,500 Watts being generated on the planet.[1,2] So, unless bitcoin is secretly a paperclip optimizer, that should offer some upper limit.

1 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

2 = https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption