![]() ![]() Her attempts to address opponents’ concerns, she said, didn’t change the response to the bill. She said she also faced misconceptions about the proposal, including fears it was the first step down a slippery slope to regulating a class of utilities that were specifically exempted from the climate legislation. Pam Marsh, D-Southern Jackson County, who sponsored the bill, said Amazon, which operates several data centers in Eastern Oregon, lobbied against the bill and organized opposition in the community. Interior of the liquid-cooled Ant Boxes at the Merkle Standard cryptocurrency mining facility in Usk, Wash. Crypto mining has also been scrutinized for instances when miners discharged heated water back into lakes after it was circulated through server farms, prompting worries about fish death and algae blooms, and how, in some cases, demands from crypto prompted closed coal plants to reopen. Much of the opposition came from the areas with established data centers and crypto operations.īoth crypto mining operations and data centers use enormous amounts of electricity. The bill sought to impose the emissions reduction timelines laid out in Oregon’s 2021 climate law on crypto miners and data centers. ![]() In Oregon, meanwhile, House Bill 2816 died last month. ![]()
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