You try saving electricity, then Bitcoin comes along

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-judge-rejects-state-efforts-202606195.html

 

A coalition of environmental groups, meanwhile, allege Greenidge is pumping millions of pounds of carbon dioxide into the air, while contaminating the nearby Seneca Lake with daily discharges of heated water required to run the plant.

“The Finger Lakes community has been sounding the alarm on the disastrous impacts of this facility on their water, air, and climate,” said Mandy DeRoche, a deputy managing attorney in the Clean Energy Program at Earthjustice. “We will continue our fight until Greenidge shuts down for good,”

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I remember to shut off the lights when I leave a room I won't be going back to for a while.  Meanwhile, Bitcoin roars through enough electricity to run several small countries.  The timing couldn't have been worse. 

And you can't forget AI starting to suck up electricity so we can make funny videos.  Or the Cloud storage instead of just keeping copies at home.  All this takes electricity, which comes from where?