>So the truth is that people are using electric heaters instead of gas/oil based heating systems, and they are somehow blaming it on bitcoin mining? what? >Wh

>So the truth is that people are using electric heaters instead of gas/oil based heating systems, and they are somehow blaming it on bitcoin mining? what? >What if the bitcoin miner (or any high-wattage business) sets up their own 1 MW solar array? Why would a business that moved to (or set up in) Plattsburg to take advantage of the 2¢/KWh rate build any sort of energy production?