{"id":301453,"date":"2025-10-14T20:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301453"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:45:17","slug":"elon-musk-endorses-bitcoins-energy-basis-amid-ai-power-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301453","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Endorses Bitcoin&#8217;s Energy Basis Amid AI Power Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, stated on X that Bitcoin is based on real energy through its proof-of-work system, unlike fiat currencies that governments can print indefinitely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes amid projections that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"AI Data Centers Surge US Power Demand, Fuel Nuclear Revival\">AI data centers could consume electricity equivalent to entire countries<\/a> by the decade&#8217;s end, driving up power prices by up to 267% in some U.S. regions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent data indicates over 52% of Bitcoin mining now uses zero-emission sources, renewing calls for Tesla to accept the cryptocurrency again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent data indicates over 52% of Bitcoin mining now uses zero-emission sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":296517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,35,16871,2845],"tags":[18368,11],"class_list":["post-301453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-breaking-news","category-cryptocurrency","category-elon-musk","tag-bitcoin","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301454,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301453\/revisions\/301454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/296517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}