Power plant using whole output to mine crypto

A backrupt power plant in the Finger Lakes region of New York was brought back online by new owners. The output—the facility has an allowance of 641,000 tons of CO2-equivalent gases a year—is now used exclusively to mine crypto. Nathaniel Mott:

Now imagine how things could worsen if Greenidge quadruples power usage as planned.

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