‘Help me get through the winter,’ the Governor reportedly told crypto miners in the state
edit: Companion article ‘A deep freeze is coming to Texas, and no one knows if the power grid is ready’ - https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/a-deep-freeze-is-coming-to-texas-and-no-one-knows-if-the-power-grid-is-ready/
What happens when an unstoppable force meets an egg with a big crack in the middle?
Some senior Republicans, including Mr Abbot and Senator Ted Cruz have held that turning the state into a crypto mining hub would help bolster the state’s energy infrastructure as miners’ rigs would create demand for companies to come along and build more power plants
lmao what. morons
Similar thing happened when Kazakhstan welcomed Chinese miners after Xi banned them. They quickly became the #2 bitcoin producer in the world (after the US) until the recent energy riots forced them to suspend activity. But Texans haven’t revolted against ERCOT despite their fuckups last year so they’ll probably just lay down and take whatever’s coming.