the plattsburg is a small city in new york, close to the canadian border. the 20000 residents harsh winters, and no major tourist attractions. unless you count this building, a former discount retailer in 2018, it became one of the largest bitcoin mining operations in the world. big cooling is still mind here today. the somewhat rundown building houses thousands of computers all day. their sole purpose is to figure out coats. ideally, every 10 minutes. each block they crack is worth $6.00 bitcoin. the validating each block is so complex that a single computer would take a very long time. so countless companies set up thousands of computers to increase their odds. it's an ongoing race. whoever cracks the code, the fastest gets the reward. in 2018 miners were generating $1800.00 bit coins per day. but the problem is, all these computers constantly, mining, bitcoin, consume massive amounts of electricity and that's the stupid kind price. when the price, a big claim was higher and it was estimated that as an electricity consumption world wide, ready to buy, was

around the time coin meant setup shop calling re became mayor of plattsburg. he teaches about banking and sustainability at the state university. he was appalled to learn that on sundays this building consumed one 3rd of all the electricity in his city of 20000 residents. these machines run 15023000 watts, very similar to a space heater. turn the same amount of heat to control that heat. if you have, you know, 3 to 10000 machines like that. and in this room, you need to try in a bunch of uh, of cold air and expel a bunch of hot air. so any big coined mine operates and have a lot of holes in the wall. a lot of holes in the, in the roof, fans everywhere in the summer time generate a lot of noise because those fountains need really to run continuously. when the weather is fine. the big coin mining operation proved to be a massive disruption for the residents of plattsburg. the chief power supply generated from the niagara river was not enough. the price of electricity suddenly shut up for local companies like this paper mill production became untenable. calling r