Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong

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    9 months ago

    Something topic-adjacent is going down in BC, Canada right now.

    We had a large timber company that branched out into crypto mining, augmented with solar. They made an absolute killing with this pivot, and wanted to expand. But need a metric fuck-ton of electricity. The local utility company denied them, citing their own issues with keeping up with demand in the near future. The timber company sued them, and I think it settled to this:

    https://vancouversun.com/business/local-business/crypto-mining-company-loses-bid-to-force-bc-hydro-power

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      9 months ago

      Super interesting story - thanks for sharing. Helps getting perspective:

      > the data centres proposed by Conifex would have consumed 2.5 million
      > megawatt-hours of electricity a year. That’s enough to power and heat
      > more than 570,000 apartments

      @Wiitigo @technology