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(Bloomberg) — The growth in Texas crypto-mining capacity will be stunted as Russias war on Ukraine drives up global energy prices and Bitcoin prices languish, according to an industry group.
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Mining capacity in the Lone Star State will increase by 2 gigawatts to 3.5 GW by the first quarter of 2024, rather than the former forecast of up to 5 GW, said Lee Bratcher, president of the Texas Blockchain Council.
The double compression effect of higher electricity prices and declining cryptocurrency values means itll take longer to bring online the huge queue of mining projects set to connect to the state grid, Bratcher said at a conference on Monday.
Its going to increase slower than we thought because the war on Ukraine had pushed energy prices up, Bratcher said at the Gulf Coast Power Association gathering in the state capital of Austin.
Even at a scaled-back pace, crypto is helping push Texas electricity usage to unprecedented heights. In recent months, power demand soared to all-time highs almost a dozen times, prompting the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to urge businesses and households to curtail usage to avoid shortages. Miners have argued that they are super sensitive to power costs and voluntarily curtail operations to aid the states grid.
We spend every waking minute thinking about electricity, Chad Harris, chief commercial officer of Riot Blockchain Inc., which operates the largest Texas mining facility.
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