Not yet. I expect gaming and high end personal computing to be targeted sooner or later by the ever moving goalpost of environmental activism.
Maybe in a dark timeline triple A gaming might be only available from cloud desktops as a service from licensed ESG and DRM friendly cloud providers. Crunching numbers and cryptographic calculations being a ToS violation.
So I’m not a big fan of having people often with obvious hysterical political bias dictating what I do with the equipment and energy I paid for. This goes the same for mining or gaming. The idea that rendering realistic grass is okay but not SHA256 hashes is preposterous and borderline medieval.
I’d say if there is a concern about energy usage please price it accordingly.
Maybe in a dark timeline triple A gaming might be only available from cloud desktops as a service from licensed ESG and DRM friendly cloud providers. Crunching numbers and cryptographic calculations being a ToS violation.
So I’m not a big fan of having people often with obvious hysterical political bias dictating what I do with the equipment and energy I paid for. This goes the same for mining or gaming. The idea that rendering realistic grass is okay but not SHA256 hashes is preposterous and borderline medieval.
I’d say if there is a concern about energy usage please price it accordingly.