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Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid (insideclimatenews.org)
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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And so they PAY them to temporarily shut down when the grid gets hot. And the rest of us are then told to turn up our AC because it’s our fault the grid is poorly mismanaged.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 months ago

Why would the power companies change when they get to charge higher rates this way