As long as the Bitcoin miners pay their energy bills, what’s the problem? Let’s attack the millennial weenies who play stupid computer games in mommy’s basement and waste 10 times more electricity than miners.
The issue is when you drop a large mining operation into a rural or poor community. They suck up a bunch of the power and drive the price up. This causes the price to go up for EVERYONE. That is where the problems arise.
Its funny, I was driving around my area the other day and saw an old mill that still have a dam in the place where it was powered by water in the 1800’s. That dam could be converted to provide hydro power to the same factory building—generating power for a mining operation.
Of course the EPA would crap a brick if someone proposed that. They want to tear down dams.
Its solutions like that which will make the mining operations more acceptable to small communities.