With all the AI hype and these massive data centers being built everywhere, i keep wondering if someone’s eventually gonna figure out how to stack Bitcoin's power demand with AI. the proposed Utah Stratos data center they're talking about is supposed to be 9GW yet right now the entire global bitcoin network sits around 20GW which just made me think:
right now, bitcoin mining is basically just a treadmill. it’s a crazy amount of energy spent chasing a random number, which is only useful for securing the network (still valid ofc, but still). it’s kinda just a closed loop:
treadmill running → energy spent → random number found → nothing else
but what if that energy spent on the treadmill could do something:
treadmill running → energy spent → random number found → LLM as a byproduct
like putting a hamster on a wheel. if it just runs, the energy goes nowhere. but if you hook that wheel up to a little generator and a lightbulb, the hamster does the exact same thing, but a the room lights up.
could that actually happen? like, bitcoin's code stays completely untouched, but an LLM somehow just emerges as a byproduct from ALL that energy
idk, maybe its just way too different for it to work out like that but it’s wild to think about: decentralized money supporting a decentralized LLM all living off the exact same energy
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