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Basically yeah. There are time lags, but crypto mining has been causing new power plants to be built everywhere and when it goes away that pressure will stop.

However the world always needs more energy so the plants built will unfortunately continue operating in some other capacity for a while, but the sooner the mining stops, the sooner they will be replaced by renewables.



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