When Will ESG & Bitcoin Mining Get Along?
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Argument: bitcoin mining grows energy use because network security scales with hashpower, but hardware improves — S19 XPS 30% more efficient and recent generations are far better than S9 — and miners act as an interruptible demand that can curtail in 30 minutes. Concrete projects claim impact: a West Texas site taking 280 megawatts of a 750 MW plant, Paraguay and 17 GW geothermal in Kenya sit underused, RECs and tokenized carbon credits used for accounting, SEC reporting expected.
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