comment on Small north Alabama town fights back against Bitcoin mining center: ‘Crushed so many hopes’ in c/alabama@lemmy.world
comment on Small north Alabama town fights back against Bitcoin mining center: ‘Crushed so many hopes’ in c/alabama@lemmy.world
[–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Water from the Tennessee River and power from TVA describes a large portion of that whole area. I'm surprised the whole thing isn't data centers by this point.

I'm also curious how many jobs were supposed to be created by a bitcoin mining facility, and also surprised building new buildings to mine bitcoin is a thing in 2026. I thought custom ASICs were the way to go years ago.

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    comment on Alabama’s Department of Public Health is once again warning the public about eating too much fish caught locally in Alabama’s rivers, streams and lakes. in c/alabama@lemmy.world
    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    People were regularly warned about this when I lived in Wisconsin and routinely ignored it. "Don't eat fish more than once a month due to mercury". So they'd eat fish every day. One problem is people used fishing as an affordable way to get food. Also, the people most likely to be out fishin' are less likely to hear or care about public safety agency warnings.

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