Crypto Miners Fight Federal Agencies’ Demands To Reveal Energy Use

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Workers install a new row of Bitcoin mining machines at the Whinstone US Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas, on October 9, 2021.Lawyers representing a crypto trade group that includes one of the nation’s largest bitcoin mining companies have scored an interim victory in their scramble to stop the federal government’s attempt to collect data about their energy usage.

“The increased demand associated with cryptocurrency mining can present challenges to the operation of electricity grids,” the agency also wrote. Chris Higginbotham, a spokesperson for the Energy Information Administration, declined to comment on the case.

 

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