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They will relocate to where ever electricity is the cheapest. Labor costs aren't a factor.

• Frogolocalypse 9y ago
  Perhaps the electricity use might be something the Chinese government cares about? "That power plant is polluting our place and you guys aren't employing anyone. Sooo..." Just sayin.
  • pmorici 9y ago
    It's almost all hydro power every thing else is too expensive to be competitive.
    • Phlarp 9y ago
      If the miners weren't tapping all the hydro power they wouldn't have to burn as much coal to power the rest of the country.
      • bluesteel44 9y ago
        Miner is an ideal consumer of the electricity, doesn't have peak hours, can put equipment near the hydro power plant, so it is very likely a lot of this energy has been just wasted before c. 2013-2014.
  • oh_sigh 9y ago
    The entire Bitcoin network consumes about 2GW at the moment, which is something but not much compared to China's total generation capacity which iirc is something like 900GW
    • bluesteel44 9y ago
      Probably less, see http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/#economics http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/#eco...