They may be furry cute but those cat videos could be costing Mother Earth: global online video viewings generated as many carbon emissions as the whole of Spain in 2018, according to French think tank The Shift Project. — dpa
TBILISI: A stone's throw from a power station on the barren outskirts of Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, a grey warehouse surrounded by metal containers hums to the sound of money.
Inside, hundreds of computer servers work continuously to solve complicated mathematical equations generating the digital currency Bitcoin – burning enough electricity to power tens of thousands of homes in the process.
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