Climate change and cybersecurity are seen by many as the two most urgent problems facing our planet now and in the near future. But cybersecurity and climate change interlock, and influence one another. Supercomputers consume vast amounts of electrical power and produce so much heat that large cooling facilities must be constructed to ensure proper performance. In 2019, the mining of Bitcoin alone consumed more energy than the entire nation of Switzerland, which equals about one quarter of the worlds entire energy consumption. Data centers, which already use over 2 percent of world’s total energy consumption, use is expected to rise fast.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/awareness/2020/03/the-effects-of-climate-change-on-cybersecurity/