Canadian B.C. Supreme Court rules power company can deny juice to crypto firm!

[thewayne]

Sometimes government has the people's best interest at heart. From the article: "B.C. Hydro CEO Christopher O'Riley had told the court in an affidavit that the data centers proposed by Conifex would have consumed 2.5 million megawatt-hours of electricity a year. That's enough to power and heat more than 570,000 apartments, according to data on the power provider's website."

Almost 600,000 apartments! And with very few jobs created. Lovely. By the way, a number of crypto mining operations are dropping crypto and turning to AI generation. Same rigs, running different software. Still consuming huge gobs of energy.

https://vancouversun.com/business/local-business/crypto-mining-company-loses-bid-to-force-bc-hydro-power

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/02/06/221230/crypto-mining-company-loses-bid-to-force-canadian-utility-company-to-provide-power

Comments

[dewline]

Good verdict!

[disneydream06]

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bout time somebody stands up to them. :)
Hugs, Jon

[silveradept]

Such wastes of energy should be charged at significantly higher rates than those who use power for actually social reasons like heating and work. So much so that they would find they could not finance such rigs. (And do the same for the LLMs - if you want to run massive computing rigs or data centers, you should really have to generate some significant amount of the power you intend to consume.)

[kellan_the_tabby]

KICK ASS