Rural Electrics Prepare for Crypto Mining

Some rural electrical cooperatives might quickly be hosts to rising crypto mining server farms.
Brad Schardin, Supervisor of Southeastern Electrical, based mostly in Marion, says they’re listening to from potential builders….

Crypto currencies like bitcoin are created via advanced math equations on laptop networks.
Schardin says they’re making an attempt to map out some areas of their system that would host a server farm….

Schardin says they’re reacting to requests for potential companies….

C-NET studies that one bitcoin transaction takes over fifteen hundred kilowatt hours of electrical energy, or sufficient to energy a mean house for fifty-three days.