“Due to the fact that bitcoin miners are forced to find the cheapest electricity, feel a downward pressure due to the difficulty adjustment and the near-perfect competition market dynamics of mining, they are driven toward waste energy. This turns out to be very helpful for the environment because a lot of these energy sources are bio-methane like in landfills, livestock waste and so on. Anthropogenic methane is the number-two source of global warming, second only to carbon dioxide.”

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/margot-paez-on-progressive-bitcoin?utm_source=carrot&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=carrot_share

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The problematic cases are oil countries that heavily subsidize electricity prices. This attracts mining and leads to inefficient energy use.

Of course it's the price controls that are the problem, not the miners taking advantage of it.