BTC: Fixed-Rating Equivalent Fleet Power - S17 normal 56 TH/s

Bitcoin Fixed-Rating Equivalent Fleet Power - S17 normal 56 TH/s was 44.47 GW on 7 Nov 2026 (latest daily value).

The power, in gigawatts, a fleet of Antminer S17 machines (56 TH/s, 2,520 W each) would draw to match Bitcoin's hash rate each day.

Why use it. Comparing machine generations shows how efficiency changes the network's power draw: the same hash rate on older machines takes far more power. How to read it. Higher means more power at this machine's efficiency. It is power, not energy used, it leaves out cooling and site loads, and the real fleet is a mix of machines.

Calculation. Exact definition: Nominal wall power, in GW, of enough S17 normal devices (56 TH/s, 2,520 W each) to match each UTC day's estimated network hash rate. Higher values mean more estimated network work at this fixed rating. This is power, not energy consumption, and external cooling and site loads are excluded. It is a scenario, not a measured or observed device fleet: ratings vary with temperature, operating mode and device tolerance, which is not modeled, and network EH/s is a statistical estimate, not measured capacity. Earlier history applies the fixed rating retrospectively, even before the model existed. One value per closed UTC day; open or unsealed days are unknown and missing inputs stay gaps. a × 2,520 / 1,000,000,000, where a is the fractional S17 normal device count (estimated network EH/s × 1,000,000 / 56) and 2,520 W is the nominal wall power per device; dividing by 1,000,000,000 converts W to GW. Network EH/s is estimated from retained canonical block difficulty/work divided by UTC-day duration, from our own validated Bitcoin Core node. Calculations use 40-significant-digit Decimal arithmetic with parent rounding; canonical ancestry, holds and weakest-input finality are inherited.