https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/pakistan-allocates-2000-megawatts-electricity-bitcoin-mining-ai-data-centres-2025-05-25/

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Running numbers on hashrate impact of that? Mainstream doesn’t understand the importance of mining across borders for a free global economy. 2 Gigawatts added to global mining (based on an unverified quick search) would be about a 10% bump in global bitcoin mining power applied to hashrate. Even splitting that with AI data centers, that’s not a small bump.

Everybody's jealous they're not El Salvador

El Salvador is so 2024.

Besides volcanoes don’t produce that much convertible power.