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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.
The only electricity that goes in Bitcoin is the electricity that would have been wasted otherwise. It’s always better to use it for something else, but sometimes there is simply no other use, and storing it isn’t an option.