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In an effort to save electricity, Quebec bans bitcoin mining


Canadian crypto-mining haven joins other areas in turning away from the energy-intensive business

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PBS NewsHour

TORONTO—The Canadian province of Quebec wants to stop selling cheap power to cryptocurrency miners amid the global energy crunch. 

The government-owned utility Hydro-Quebec asked a provincial regulator last month to reallocate the 270 megawatts of energy, equivalent to the energy consumed by roughly 97,000 households, that it had set aside for crypto mining.

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