Jaran Mellerud 🟧⛏️

@JMellerud

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Power bills increased by $300 per year for each home in a Norwegian town after the local #bitcoin miner shut down.

The miner paid 20% of the area's grid fees, thus subsidizing other consumers. With the miner gone, people's power bills are skyrocketing.

https://nrk.no/nordland/datasenter-la-ned-driften-_-na-far-innbyggerne-sjokkregning-1.17042643