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Re:Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power by burnished on Friday February 09, 2024 @08:16PM (#39322503)
Why are you touting that as some kind of good? It would have been appropriate to decommission that dam, and there are other energy intensive industries that would have brought some prosperity to the region.
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Re:Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power by latchkey on Friday February 09, 2024 @08:52PM (#39322748)
> It would have been appropriate to decommission that dam

That's your opinion.

> and there are other energy intensive industries that would have brought some prosperity to the region.

If that were true, it would have already happened.

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