The crypto farms are illegal due to a change in Chinese law. I'd wager it's mentioned because China had the largest set of mining on the planet before the CCP o

The crypto farms are illegal due to a change in Chinese law. I'd wager it's mentioned because China had the largest set of mining on the planet before the CCP outlawed it. The most likely thing to happen to all of that GPU hardware would be to either dump it as used stock, which a lot of it has been, or to repurpose them. The only things to repurpose them to would be hacking or AI/BOINC/etc.