stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to News@lemmy.world · 10 months agoTexas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wavewww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1461arrow-down19file-text
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To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.
minus-squareWalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoThey also built much of the solar in one region instead of diversifying. So even when other places are under fire-weather watch from high winds, we can have low wind energy because of low winds where they’re built…
They also built much of the solar in one region instead of diversifying. So even when other places are under fire-weather watch from high winds, we can have low wind energy because of low winds where they’re built…