Thousands of Texans are without power as arctic cold front hits state
abc13.com
ERCOT says there is enough to meet the demand, but still, thousands of Texans are without power. Gov. Abbot warned that issues like downed power lines could cause outages.

Guess they didn’t ask the crypo miners nicely enough.

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Funniest part is that some did

    Industrial-scaled Bitcoin mining facilities in Texas told Gov. Greg Abbott they are powering down during this winter storm as a precaution.

    One of the largest facilities in North America is Riot Whinstone. It’s located in Rockdale, just an hour north of Austin. The facility uses enough power to power a large city.

    What the fuck, Whinstone uses 200-ish MW currently?? And they plan to scale to 750??? And there’s SEVERAL of these???

    Most power plants output around 500…I work for a utility, 200 MW would be about 3% of our total generation right now, with several plants operating near capacity due to extreme cold; 750 would be > 10%

        • CTHlurker [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          3 years ago

          You’d be forgiven for thinking that preparing for CHUDs to become violent would be extremely easy, and presumably the only thing that the American state can actually deal with. Because as we saw with BLM, the American state has killed off most of its ability to do litterally anything, aside from committing gruesome acts of violence.