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Bitcoin mining and coal ash

by Great Lakes Now September 7, 2022

Housed in a former coal-fired plant, the bitcoin mining operation is energy intensive.

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In the Finger Lakes, a bitcoin mining plant billed as ‘green’ has a dirty coal ash problem

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