Energy

With data center news moving faster than ever, we want to make it easy for industry professionals to cut through the noise and find the most important stories of the week. The Data Center…

In the Bitcoin mining industry, Iris Energy has recently reported significant growth in its operations. The firm on Nasdaq in EH/s has advanced its productivity capacity to 6 exahash per second. This trend comes in a targeted…

Washington, D.C. — Today the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced that it is initiating a provisional survey of electricity consumption from cryptocurrency mining companies in the United States. Cryptocurrency mining…

In response to the rapid growth of cryptocurrency mining operations in the United States and the associated surge in electricity demand, the U.S. Energy Data Agency (EIA) announced plans to closely monitor the energy consumption of…

Upon reading the opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle penned by Steve Westly, we are reminded of Brandolini’s Law, which we paraphrase here: "The amount of energy needed to refute misinformation is an order of magnitude larger…

Bitcoin mining has long been singled out for its contribution to rising global carbon emissions. Fortunately for the pioneering cryptocurrency, many of these critiques are based on faulty assumptions and predictions divorced from an…

The national government of Argentina is looking for a way to solve the energy crisis that the country is going through, and thus prevent the power outages of the last week from being repeated in the future. To that end, an eye…

Talking about blockchain technology without mentioning energy efficiency has become nearly impossible. Many who discuss these subjects explore ways to utilize energy in mining operations more efficiently. Such a conversation took…

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will begin collecting data on crypto mines’ electricity use, following criticism from environmental advocates over how energy-hungry those operations are. “We will specifically focus on how the energy…

Bitcoin mining has achieved a new sustainability milestone, with 54.5% of its energy consumption now powered by renewable sources, according to the Bitcoin ESG Forecast, a research series by Daniel Batten, a co-founder of methane…