HELENA, Mont. (AP) — With the cryptocurrency business below growing strain to rein within the environmental influence of the huge quantities of electrical energy it makes use of to energy computer systems verifying transactions, some firms mining bitcoin are trying to change to renewable vitality.
Many economists and environmentalists have warned that because the nonetheless extensively misunderstood digital forex grows in value and recognition the method of mining that’s central to its existence and worth is changing into more and more vitality intensive and doubtlessly unsustainable.
For one firm that has hundreds of computer systems primarily based at a coal-fired energy plant in rural Montana, which means relocating to a wind farm in Texas.
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