{"id":2368,"date":"2021-11-04T23:20:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2021-11-04T23:20:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:20:05","slug":"cryptocurrency-ercot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/cryptocurrency-ercot\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency &#038; ERCOT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Politicians are touting it, and cryptocurrency miners see the lone star state and its low-cost energy as an appealing location. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? A research associate at the Webber Energy Group at the University of Texas at Austin says that &#8220;Because Texas has some of the lowest cost electricity in the world, it looks pretty attractive to bitcoin miners or cryptocurrency miners.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important?  Opponents. Like these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An associate professor of environmental engineering at Rice University says &#8221; &#8220;But just adding brand new demand to the grid isn&#8217;t helpful, or doesn&#8217;t fix the shortfalls.&#8221; <\/li><li>founder of the website Digiconomist which analyzes the impacts of cryptocurrencies says &#8221; &#8220;This is a massive risk when you look at the Texas grid, which is already quite weak,&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/next\/can-texas-power-grid-withstand-cryptocurrency-mining?utm_term=Can%20Texas%5Cu2019%20Power%20Grid%20Withstand%20Cryptocurrency%20Mining&amp;utm_campaign=In%20Virginia%2C%20Republicans%20Win%20First%20Key%20Contest%20of%20the%20Biden%20Era&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Houston Chronicle via Governing | Can Texas\u2019 Power Grid Withstand Cryptocurrency Mining?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Politicians are touting it, and cryptocurrency miners see the lone star state and its low-cost energy as an appealing location. Why is this important? A research associate at the Webber Energy Group at the University of Texas at Austin says that &#8220;Because Texas has some of the lowest cost electricity in the world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}