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coffeesp00ns · 2234 days ago · link · · parent · post: In 2018, Iceland will use more electricity for mining cryptocurrency than it will to power its homes.
It helps that they're able to heat and get hot water for their homes from the hot springs there. Fun fact, in older houses the water has a mild sulfur smell because it comes from some of the more mild hot springs, but newer houses don't because they use fresh water that has been heated by even hotter springs.Full disclosure: 18MW is chump change. That's two of these.