Comment Comment by michaelbuckbee Complicated mix of things here:1. So it's not so much "not providing power" for some political or philosophical reason but "not providing all the power they want."2. The miner wants the equivalent of ~500,000 apartments worth of power...which is substantial.3. The reason the miner wants this particular power from this particular provider is that it's cheap.4. If the miner got all the power they wanted it would be enough to drive up local utility rates.5. The local utility + government aren't keen on this as it's a pretty blatent resource extraction with no local jobs being created. parent michaelbuckbee 2 years ago
1. So it's not so much "not providing power" for some political or philosophical reason but "not providing all the power they want."
2. The miner wants the equivalent of ~500,000 apartments worth of power...which is substantial.
3. The reason the miner wants this particular power from this particular provider is that it's cheap.
4. If the miner got all the power they wanted it would be enough to drive up local utility rates.
5. The local utility + government aren't keen on this as it's a pretty blatent resource extraction with no local jobs being created.