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Small north Alabama town fights back against Bitcoin mining center: ‘Crushed so many hopes’ (www.al.com)
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[–] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Water from the Tennessee River and power from TVA describes a large portion of that whole area. I'm surprised the whole thing isn't data centers by this point.

I'm also curious how many jobs were supposed to be created by a bitcoin mining facility, and also surprised building new buildings to mine bitcoin is a thing in 2026. I thought custom ASICs were the way to go years ago.