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![A worker installs a new row of Bitcoin mining machines at the Whinstone US Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas, on October 9, 2021. - The long sheds at North America's largest bitcoin mine look endless in the Texas sun, packed with the type of machines that have helped the US to become the new global hub for the digital currency. The operation in the quiet town of Rockdale was part of an already bustling US business -- now boosted by Beijing's intensified crypto crackdown that has pushed the industry west. Experts say rule of law and cheap electricity in the US are a draw for bitcoin miners, whose energy-gulping computers race to unlock units of the currency. "There's a lot of competitors coming into Texas because they are seeing the same thing (as) when we came here," said Chad Everett Harris, CEO of miner Whinstone, which operates the Rockdale site owned by US company Riot Blockchain. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP) (Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)]()
Crypto miners in TX will use as much energy as Houston by 2023ERCOT is preparing for an influx of cryptocurrency mining businesses it says will likely end up drawing more energy from the power grid than the state's largest city.By Dan Carson
![FILE - ]=This is a the logo on the rear of a 2016 Corvette on display at the Pittsburgh International Auto Show in Pittsburgh, Feb. 11, 2016. General Motors says it will be offering an electrified Corvette as early as next year as it continues to strengthen its foothold in the electric vehicle market. President Mark Reuss said in a statement on LinkedIn on Monday, April 25, 2022 that the automaker will also offer a fully electric, Ultium-based Corvette in the future.](https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/25/35/35/22402912/3/ratio1x1_375.jpg)
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![FILE - Motorists in the Netherlands headed to the pumps after a government reduction in duties on fuel entered into force to help motorists hit by soaring fuel prices, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, April 1, 2022. Inflation hit a new record for the 19 countries that use the euro as skyrocketing fuel prices boosted by the war in Ukraine add new burdens to household finances and weigh on a slowing economic recovery from the latest outbreaks of COVID-19, the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat reported Friday, April 29, 2022.]()
Inflation hits record high of 7.5% in countries using euroBRUSSELS (AP) — Inflation hit a record in April for the 19 countries that use the euro as skyrocketing fuel prices boosted by the war in Ukraine weigh on the region's economic recovery from the...
![Rescue servicemen extinguish a bush fire after shelling in Mykolaivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, April 29, 2022.]()
Live updates | US official: Ukraine resistance slows RussiaWASHINGTON -- A senior U.S. defense official said Friday the Russian offensive is going much slower than planned in part because of the strength of the Ukrainian resistance. “We also assess that...By The Associated Press
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![FILE - Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2020. Musk says he has lined up $46.5 billion in financing to buy Twitter, and he’s trying to negotiate an agreement with the company. The Tesla CEO says in documents filed Thursday, April 21, 2022 with U.S. securities regulators that he’s exploring a tender offer to buy all of the social media platform’s common stock for $54.20 per share in cash. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP, File)]()
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![FILE - Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2020. Musk says he has lined up $46.5 billion in financing to buy Twitter, and he’s trying to negotiate an agreement with the company. The Tesla CEO says in documents filed Thursday, April 21, 2022 with U.S. securities regulators that he’s exploring a tender offer to buy all of the social media platform’s common stock for $54.20 per share in cash. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP, File)]()
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![The Hardin Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant that is also home to the cryptocurrency "mining" operation Big Horn Data Hub, is seen on April 20, 2022, in Hardin, Mont. Energy from burning coal is used to power thousands of computers that are kept on site to produce the digital currency known as bitcoins.]()
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![FILE - Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2020. Musk is offering to buy Twitter, Thursday, April 14, 2022. He says the social media platform he has criticized for not living up to free speech principles needs to be transformed as a private company. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP, File)]()
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![FILE ?‘ The Florida House of Representatives in Tallahassee, where legislators approved a bill that makes it easier to buy and sell cryptocurrency, March 4, 2022. In the absence of federal regulations, crypto lobbyists and executives are going state by state to get favorable rules enacted. (Octavio Jones/The New York Times)]()
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![A customer prepares to pump gasoline into his car at a Sam's Club fuel island in Gulfport, Miss., Feb. 19, 2022. For the 12 months ending in March, consumer prices surged 8.5% — posting the fastest year-over-year pace since December 1981 and topping February's previous 40-year high of 7.9%, the Labor Department said Tuesday, April 12. Even if you toss out volatile food and energy prices, so-called core inflation jumped 6.5% in March from a year earlier. That was also the sharpest such jump in four decades.]()
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![Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. Twitter Inc. permanently banned Trump's personal account for breaking its rules against glorifying violence, marking the most high-profile punishment the company has ever imposed and the end of Trump's relationship with his favorite social media megaphone.]()
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![President Joe Biden will allow millions of federal student loan borrowers to freeze their payments until Aug. 31, according to an administration official briefed on the matter, the latest extension of a pandemic relief measure that began more than two years ago.]()
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![FILE - Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020, in Washington. Musk is joining Twitter’s board of directors, one day after it was disclosed that the Tesla CEO took a 9% stake in the social media platform. Twitter Inc. said in a regulatory filing that it entered into an agreement with Musk on Monday, April 4, that will give the billionaire a seat on its board, with the term expiring at its 2024 annual shareholders meeting.]()
