They were probably looking for a specific type of growth (one that includes jobs) but failed to specify. Oops, but lesson learned. But there's also a second is

They were probably looking for a specific type of growth (one that includes jobs) but failed to specify. Oops, but lesson learned. But there's also a second issue: even if the bitcoin operation had brought jobs, it still used enough power to raise everyone's electric bills by $100-200 a month. That's huge, and it's not obvious that it's even worth it. Of course, you can argue that if a business had high labor costs, it never would have expanded as much as or as quickly as the bitcoin mining businesses did.