Internet Outage Exposes Electricity Use Secret/ What Share Do Miners Account For?

Analysis of electricity consumption data during the nationwide internet shutdown points to a nighttime drop of about one gigawatt.

Ambassador Arjan: Examining the electricity consumption data during the period of nationwide internet blackout indicates a drop of about one gigawatt in nighttime consumption.

The nationwide shutdown of the Internet in December 1404 left a mark on the electricity network: the nightly electricity consumption decreased by about one gigawatt.

According to Zuman's analysis of the data of the Majlis Research Center, the simultaneousness of this drop with the internet cut-off strengthened the extensive activity of miners during the network's off-peak hours; Consumption that under normal conditions may be hidden in the general statistics of the network.

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After the internet restriction, the power consumption of electricity decreased significantly and increased again after the return of normal conditions.

This data can be one of the important signs to estimate the share of cryptocurrency mining in the electricity imbalance of the country.