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U.S. officials this week
indefinitely withdrew a survey aimed at gathering information on
the crypto-mining industry s power use, hindering attempts to
understand the sector s impact on grids and.
Democratic lawmakers are investigating the impact Bitcoin mining has on climate goals and the power grid. The Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency told Democratic lawmakers that they have the authority to collect data on crypto mining companies, according to a new letter.
It is the customers’ use of AI that will take the sector in some unexpected directions, not the banks’ use of AI to make marginal improvements to existing processes.