Comment on Texas grid paid firm to stop mining crypto during heatwave

• red@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Either you innovate or you pay that company $32M every summer forever

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure their goal is the latter based on the other part of the article which says they can act like padding.

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• SuiXi3D@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not in Texas, at least. Our government here is in the habit of actively making everything worse, not better.

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• FunkyMonk@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Trickle down grid, food, climate, whatever just fucking gimmie peasant. /s

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That has the same energy as someone claiming they drive better tipsy than sober

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