Power usage of decentralised storage

[nerdatwork]

It’s already posted in one of your earlier posts.

CO2 Emission of Tardigrade?

Do you have some other studies which confirm this? For me it looks like they compare hot storage with cold/archival storage. I don’t think any cloud storage provider would be profitable if they use 3-7kWh/GB/year. Edit: I found this paper https://www.cubbit.io/static/media/greenpaper.pdf . There is stated that they are using 20W/TB (max) with HP SO 3620. Which would be ~0.175kWh/GB/year, if my calculation doesn’t suck. Cubit states they are using 2.5W/TB (max), with there cubit cells (kind…