ERCOT says there is enough to meet the demand, but still, thousands of Texans are without power. Gov. Abbot warned that issues like downed power lines could cause outages.
Guess they didn't ask the crypo miners nicely enough.
Industrial-scaled Bitcoin mining facilities in Texas told Gov. Greg Abbott they are powering down during this winter storm as a precaution.
One of the largest facilities in North America is Riot Whinstone. It's located in Rockdale, just an hour north of Austin. The facility uses enough power to power a large city.
Most power plants output around 500...I work for a utility, 200 MW would be about 3% of our total generation right now, with several plants operating near capacity due to extreme cold; 750 would be > 10%
This is some absolute Fern Gully shit. It's extremely blackpilling that this stuff is going on and no one in power is even thinking about putting a stop to it.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that preparing for CHUDs to become violent would be extremely easy, and presumably the only thing that the American state can actually deal with. Because as we saw with BLM, the American state has killed off most of its ability to do litterally anything, aside from committing gruesome acts of violence.
Funniest part is that some did
What the fuck, Whinstone uses 200-ish MW currently?? And they plan to scale to 750????? And there's SEVERAL of these????
Most power plants output around 500...I work for a utility, 200 MW would be about 3% of our total generation right now, with several plants operating near capacity due to extreme cold; 750 would be > 10%
This is some absolute Fern Gully shit. It's extremely blackpilling that this stuff is going on and no one in power is even thinking about putting a stop to it.
Some in power are, they just need more power
:cryptocurrency: :xi-gun:
Good luck trying to ban this shit too, they’ll instantly turn fascist/violent, if they weren’t already
You'd be forgiven for thinking that preparing for CHUDs to become violent would be extremely easy, and presumably the only thing that the American state can actually deal with. Because as we saw with BLM, the American state has killed off most of its ability to do litterally anything, aside from committing gruesome acts of violence.