If you punch in "outage map" in a search engine, you will get a series of maps, ranging from the entire country to state by state and even smaller jurisdictions.
Just two digital mining operations would each require as much as $20 million to fortify power lines and avert blackouts, according to one utility. Each would consume enough electricity to power as many as 60,000 homes.
As interest in cryptocurrency mining continues to grow, Texas power utilities are left to figure out how to manage the surge in electricity demand largely on their own, making many things, like monthly costs, uncertain.