@lnxw48a1
OK.... maybe an actual number of users related to power usage would be helpful.

I would almost be willing to bet there are more than 1000X users of the traditional banking system, probably more like 10kX-100kX or more users and on a per user basis the power usage is not that shocking.

Like anything that is related to the number of user, be it a SocNet instance, the power demands grow with the user count.

To me this is like comparing the power usage of FB/twitter/other big SocNet to the Fediverse.