Recent news from Norway claims that data centres could increase the power consumption of the country by 20%. Part of the interest is due to the clean energy and

Recent news from Norway claims that data centres could increase the power consumption of the country by 20%. Part of the interest is due to the clean energy and heavy reliance on hydropower in Norway, plus the cold weather conditions in the North which makes cooling somewhat easier and cheaper.^[1] At the same time parliamentary politician Lars Haltbrekken (SV)^[2] demands that such development assumes good utilization of residual heat.^[3] As far as my own political sources claim, there is however little interest in cryptocurrency farms. To that end there is indeed rather some aversion to it, especially from the Conservative Right. On the other hand, if the Norwegian power grid is expanded for this interest, like it seems to be, I think also crypto farms would be interested as well. [1]: Norwegian language source: https://www.digi.no/artikler/star-i-ko-for-a-koble-seg-pa-datasentre-oker-norges-kraftbehov-med-20-prosent/496006 https://www.digi.no/artikler/star-i-ko-for-a-koble-seg-pa-da... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Left_Party_(Norway) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Left_Party_(Norway) [3]: Norwegian language source: https://www.nrk.no/vestland/datasentera-kan-auka-landets-kraftbehov-med-20-prosent-1.15088668 https://www.nrk.no/vestland/datasentera-kan-auka-landets-kra...