【米国】ビットコイン用に買収された発電所からの排熱で湖が温水に！　調べてみると…

問題になっているグリニッジ発電所です。すぐそばには温水になったというセネカ湖があります。

Private equity firm buys power plant and…
Ups electricity output and emissions in order to…
Power a local #Bitcoin mining operation…
Which results in a popular summer lake being polluted and too warm to quench the heatwave.
ht @FlitterOnFraud https://t.co/rE0oKNWWsi

— David Gelles (@dgelles) July 6, 2021

A bitcoin business is polluting Seneca Lake, say critics. Here's how.

"The lake is so warm you feel like you're in a hot tub," said a woman who lives near a gas-fired New York plant that powers 8,000 computers mining bitcoins.

www.nbcnews.com

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Private equity firms like Atlas buy companies, often using debt, and hope to sell them later at a profit.
They are secretive operations with investments that can be hard to track.
The number of such firms has grown significantly in recent years, and they oversee $5 trillion for pension funds, insurance companies, university endowments and wealthy people.

何だか色々と闇がありそうです…。

そのアトラス社のニュースページです。

Media » Atlas Holdings

Read the latest news and press releases from the Atlas Holdings family of businesses.

www.atlasholdingsllc.com

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4/10/2020
New York Power Plant Sells 30% of Its Bitcoin Mining Hashrate to Institutional Buyers

3/5/2020
A New York Power Plant Is Mining $50K Worth of Bitcoin a Day

科学ネタではなく社会ネタよりになってしまう…。
むむむ…。