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Ukraine plans cryptocurrency mining data centers next to nuclear plants
- asplake 6y agoAlternative headline: Country plans to export money
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoAt least that isn't the dumpster carbon situation that coal-fired outer mongolian mining farms are.
- JacobSuperslav 6y agoa bit late to the game they are
- nikolay 6y agoChernobylcoin FTW!
- base3 6y agoSad waste of resources.
- suddengunter 6y agoyeah, but the lady who initiated the project resigned few weeks ago https://biz.liga.net/pervye-litsa/tek/novosti/pervyy-zamglavy-minenergo-olga-buslavets-podala-v-otstavku https://biz.liga.net/pervye-litsa/tek/novosti/pervyy-zamglav...
- mywittyname 6y agoThis makes sense. For those that aren't aware, nuclear power plants are slow to respond to changes in demand, so it is common for them to make deals with large users to burn off excess capacity. So this is a semi-productive way of performing this feat rather than doing something like lighting an empty stadium. However, I can't help but think a better use of these funds would be to purchase battery storage. But I can see why they'd pursue additional revenue generation instead.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoYäss! And use Chernobyl-II/Duga as rack frame for good air cooling! https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=chernobyl+2+Duga&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=chernobyl+2+Duga&iax=images... Imagine how it would look at night, with all the blinking status LEDs. And having a rave with psy-trance in front of it. With locally sourced magic mushrooms. Oh my gawd! It's full of Starz!