Exxon is mining bitcoin in North Dakota as part of its plan to slash emissions

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ExxonMobil has been working with Denver-based Crusoe Energy Systems to mine bitcoin in North Dakota.

Permits from North Dakota's Division of Air Quality show Crusoe can run 20 portable engines, with 11 currently in use at well sites across the state. Two of the engines are operational at wells run by XTO Energy, Exxon's oil and gas fracking subsidiary, at the Jorgenson Deep Creek Site. Cavness said most of Crusoe's 80-plus data centers are deployed in the Bakken.

Craig Thorstenson has been working at the permitting program at North Dakota's Division of Air Quality since 1989. He says North Dakota has always been an oil state to some extent, but growth in the Bakken lifted the state to second in the country, before itThorstenson, who was born and raised in Bismarck, the state capital, said the change "was quite a shock for us." Residential housing couldn't keep up with demand.

More drilling meant more wasted gas, which affected the entire Williston Basin that spreads across part of Montana, the Dakotas and into Canada. That's a big reason why Crusoe invested heavily in the area. Drillers have historically chosen flaring as a way to dispose of excess gas because it's less damaging to the environment than venting, which releases methane directly into the air and produces greenhouse effects that have proven to beEven with flaring, some methane does escape due to wind and other factors.

 

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This incentivizes them to produce excess.

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