Your Guide to Emerging Issues in Environmental Regulation and Litigation.
As artificial intelligence, data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities proliferate across the United States, communities in which companies are looking to place these operations are beginning to push back more forcefully. Indeed, as municipalities and towns throughout the country have learned, the activities going on at these centers are not only noisy, but monopolize power …
The election of Donald Trump back into office was cheered by cryptocurrency enthusiasts across the country for his public support of the industry. After all, the president even has his own memecoin ($TrumpCoin, of course) and has issued executive orders proclaiming support for the industry during his first days in office. Yet, even if efforts to …
As closely monitored by ELM over the last couple of years, the expansion of cryptocurrency mining in the United States has resulted in the industry simply devouring the country’s energy resources (see here for general background on cryptocurrency mining effects on energy use, and here for an explainer on the federal government’s increased attention to crypto’s energy …