Texas Leaders Worry That Bitcoin Mines Threaten to Crash the State Power Grid

Photo caption: Cheryl Shadden stands outside her home in Granbury, Texas, with a view of Constellation Energy’s Wolf Hollow II power plant in the background. Photo credit: Keaton Peters / Inside Climate News. Article by Keaton Peters. Inside Climate News – July 10, 2024.

GRANBURY, TEXAS — Cheryl Shadden cannot sleep. The 61-year-old nurse, who works at hospitals giving patients anesthesia, says she is kept up at night by the nonstop mechanical whir of fans spinning to cool tens of thousands of computers. […]

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