Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave

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Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave
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To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.

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If they stopped killing their kids down there for five minutes they can figure out how awful this is and get their grid reconnected.

Lol they cant. The texas grid is separate because they dont follow federal regulations. They cant just reconnect it without bringing it to code lolololol

I think that's their point. Instead of weaponising "woke" and fighting culture wars, they could get their grid to code and connect it.