AMP → Bitcoin

Electricity underpins modern computation and digital money.

Enter an electricity amount to see how much Bitcoin and AI computation it could produce.

Monthly household use, facility consumption, or any energy amount.

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Uses a 200-day moving average BTC price to reduce day-to-day market noise.
One inference is one time an AI model processes a request and produces a response (e.g. a single chatbot reply).
Scale details

Block reward fraction: —

Network time: —

Household equivalent: —

National monthly share: —

How this works
  • Uses current Bitcoin network difficulty.
  • Assumes global mining efficiency of 27 J/TH.
  • Uses 200-day moving average BTC price.
  • AI estimate assumes ~1 Wh per inference.
  • Network data updated daily at 00:10 UTC.
  • Your inputs are processed locally. Nothing is saved.
Why compare energy this way?

We're often told about the electricity consumption of global systems like Bitcoin or AI in abstract comparisons — "the network uses more electricity than Denmark," for example. These statements highlight scale, but they rarely help us understand what that energy is doing.

Bitcoin and AI are not abstract entities. They are physical systems powered by electricity. Like all infrastructure, they consume energy in exchange for something: monetary security, computation, coordination.

Instead of comparing nations to networks, this tool turns the perspective around. It translates your own electricity usage into comparable outputs within those systems.

Seeing personal-scale energy in relation to global digital infrastructure helps make that infrastructure more tangible. It reframes Bitcoin and AI as energy allocations — choices about how electricity is converted into value and computation.

Energy underpins everything. Understanding how human-scale usage connects to global-scale systems makes those systems easier to reason about.

Use the API

The calculations behind this page are available as a free, open API. No key required.

https://mvnvjcqpxa.execute-api.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com

Convert kWh — POST /v1/compare

curl -X POST \
  https://mvnvjcqpxa.execute-api.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/v1/compare \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"kwh": 900}'

Returns Bitcoin (sats), fiat value, AI inferences, CO₂ estimate, and electricity cost. Optional fields: region (ISO country code), currency, include (array to filter sections).

View assumptions — GET /v1/assumptions

Returns the current difficulty, hashrate, SMA200 price, and all other parameters used in calculations. Updated daily at 00:10 UTC.