The Energy Information Agency is starting the process to require cryptocurrency miners to submit energy consumption data after a previous attempt faced legal challenges.
It's not. A single miner often has like 4 GPUs running at 100% load, 24/7 and I doubt someone will build a 100 Megawatt facility with thousands of computers to get fallout tokens.
Though it is the same thing in the sense of running computer to generate worthless digital tokens. The main difference in that sense is that fallout tokens do actually have a use(in game)!
Makes me wonder how much energy is wasted by people just leaving their desktop computers on.
I know I used to be bad about that and eventually made a concerted effort to always sleep or turn it off.
I'm also glad LED lights are a thing now. I'm a lot better at turning lights off now as well, but at least if one gets forgotten on now it's like 10x less waste.