They do have ear protection. I've seen certain mining facilities where people are required to wear ear protection before entering the farm. This ensures that the employees are not affected by the constant whirring within the facility. This is also mandatory for some datacenters. This seems to be a big part of why Texans aren't very fond of mining facilities being built there. However, I would argue ERCOT's strategy might not be as friendly to the residents as it seems. They are offered a preferential rates as compared to the Texans, and that is okay because they consume massive amount but the discount can be quite egregious when you compare to how much the regular citizens are paying. In fact, cryptominers can be paid to not mine. I believe that several sources and financial reports actually highlights how ERCOT's scheme helped them to turn their losses into a profit.[1] To quote RIOT, they received 49.3 million in manual curtailment credits, $21.9 million in ERCOT's ability to control their load. Latter of which is also given regardless of the fact that they're power down or not. It's not that I agree that utilizing potentially wasted energy to provide to the miners is bad, but I think there are fundamental issues that should've been addressed before. What they can do now is to prove that they're drawing electricity in a sustainable way, but they've successfully filed a court order to prevent that from happening. So much for transparency, and I guess we will never find out now. [2] Preferential rates without having to pay them millions to stop mining would probably be quite reasonable. I guess that wouldn't attract so many of them. Probably doesn't matter too much to them, the politicians isn't living there anyways. The state in general is quite pro-Jun88 2. [1] [2]
They do have ear protection. I've seen certain mining facilities where people are required to wear ear protection before entering the farm. This ensures that the employees are not affected by the constant whirring within the facility. This is also mandatory for some datacenters. This seems to be a big part of why Texans aren't very fond of mining facilities being built there. However, I would argue ERCOT's strategy might not be as friendly to the residents as it seems. They are offered a preferential rates as compared to the Texans, and that is okay because they consume massive amount but the discount can be quite egregious when you compare to how much the regular citizens are paying. In fact, cryptominers can be paid to not mine. I believe that several sources and financial reports actually highlights how ERCOT's scheme helped them to turn their losses into a profit.[1] To quote RIOT, they received 49.3 million in manual curtailment credits, $21.9 million in ERCOT's ability to control their load. Latter of which is also given regardless of the fact that they're power down or not. It's not that I agree that utilizing potentially wasted energy to provide to the miners is bad, but I think there are fundamental issues that should've been addressed before. What they can do now is to prove that they're drawing electricity in a sustainable way, but they've successfully filed a court order to prevent that from happening. So much for transparency, and I guess we will never find out now. [2] Preferential rates without having to pay them millions to stop mining would probably be quite reasonable. I guess that wouldn't attract so many of them. Probably doesn't matter too much to them, the politicians isn't living there anyways. The state in general is quite pro-Jun88 2. [1] [2]

They do have ear protection. I've seen certain mining facilities where people are required to wear ear protection before entering the farm. This ensures that the employees are not affected by the constant whirring within the facility. This is also mandatory for some datacenters. This seems to be a big part of why Texans aren't very fond of mining facilities being built there. However, I would argue ERCOT's strategy might not be as friendly to the residents as it seems. They are offered a preferential rates as compared to the Texans, and that is okay because they consume massive amount but the discount can be quite egregious when you compare to how much the regular citizens are paying. In fact, cryptominers can be paid to not mine. I believe that several sources and financial reports actually highlights how ERCOT's scheme helped them to turn their losses into a profit.[1] To quote RIOT, they received 49.3 million in manual curtailment credits, $21.9 million in ERCOT's ability to control their load. Latter of which is also given regardless of the fact that they're power down or not. It's not that I agree that utilizing potentially wasted energy to provide to the miners is bad, but I think there are fundamental issues that should've been addressed before. What they can do now is to prove that they're drawing electricity in a sustainable way, but they've successfully filed a court order to prevent that from happening. So much for transparency, and I guess we will never find out now. [2] Preferential rates without having to pay them millions to stop mining would probably be quite reasonable. I guess that wouldn't attract so many of them. Probably doesn't matter too much to them, the politicians isn't living there anyways. The state in general is quite pro-Jun88 2. [1] [2]

They do have ear protection. I've seen certain mining facilities where people are required to wear ear protection before entering the farm. This ensures that the employees are not affected by the constant whirring within the facility. This is also mandatory for some datacenters. This seems to be a big part of why Texans aren't very fond of mining facilities being built there. However, I would argue ERCOT's strategy might not be as friendly to the residents as it seems. They are offered a preferential rates as compared to the Texans, and that is okay because they consume massive amount but the discount can be quite egregious when you compare to how much the regular citizens are paying. In fact, cryptominers can be paid to not mine. I believe that several sources and financial reports actually highlights how ERCOT's scheme helped them to turn their losses into a profit.[1] To quote RIOT, they received 49.3 million in manual curtailment credits, $21.9 million in ERCOT's ability to control their load. Latter of which is also given regardless of the fact that they're power down or not. It's not that I agree that utilizing potentially wasted energy to provide to the miners is bad, but I think there are fundamental issues that should've been addressed before. What they can do now is to prove that they're drawing electricity in a sustainable way, but they've successfully filed a court order to prevent that from happening. So much for transparency, and I guess we will never find out now. [2] Preferential rates without having to pay them millions to stop mining would probably be quite reasonable. I guess that wouldn't attract so many of them. Probably doesn't matter too much to them, the politicians isn't living there anyways. The state in general is quite pro-Jun88 2. [1] [2]