{"id":2518,"date":"2022-06-17T00:59:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T00:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2022-06-17T00:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T00:59:28","slug":"protesting-a-business-property-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/protesting-a-business-property-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesting a Business Property Location"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is  happening? Grass roots group in Corsicana Texas do not want a bitcoin miner in their backyard. They are concerned about their already frail infrastructure and a concern of increasing electricity costs supported by a UC Berkeley study and comments from the Texas Blockchain Council that no company can guarantee rates won&#8217;t increase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? One of the world&#8217;s largest bitcoin mining centers is being built near Corsicana by \u00a0Riot Blockchain.  The 256 acres of its property is located at the end of a high-voltage transmission line \u2014 known as a switch \u2014 that will supply the electricity needed to mine for digital currency. They also have access to water to cool their facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important?  &#8220;the facility will have a maximum capacity of 1 gigawatt, enough electricity to power 300,000 to 1 million homes in the U.S. That\u2019s over 30% bigger than Riot\u2019s capacity at its existing facility about two hours away in Rockdale.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dallas Morning News | \u2018We do not want this\u2019: Corsicana group protests Riot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/local-companies\/2022\/06\/16\/we-do-not-want-this-corsicana-group-protests-riot-blockchains-bitcoin-mining-facility\/\">Blockchain\u2019s Bitcoin mining facility<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? Grass roots group in Corsicana Texas do not want a bitcoin miner in their backyard. They are concerned about their already frail infrastructure and a concern of increasing electricity costs supported by a UC Berkeley study and comments from the Texas Blockchain Council that no company can guarantee rates won&#8217;t increase. Why [&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-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}