This seems rather fishy to me. First of all, they're currently running at only 18MW, and that lake has about 4 billion gallons of water in it. That's not enough

This seems rather fishy to me. First of all, they're currently running at only 18MW, and that lake has about 4 billion gallons of water in it. That's not enough energy use to produce a noticeable change in that much water. Second problem - there are literally no lake water temperatures in the article, either now or historical. The entire premise of the article seems to be that locals feel that it's warmer. I personally think this kind of power use for bitcoin mining is wasteful and should be heavily taxed, but c'mon man - how about the reporter does a little bit of journalism?