Crypto Could Leave Texas in the Dark
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🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Crypto mining is booming in Texas. Will the power grid be able to handle it?
Guest: Russell Gold
Host: Sonari Glinton
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| 1:08.7 | Earlier this summer, Texas Monthly Reporter Russell Gold took a trip to Dickens County. It's a |
| 1:14.5 | remote and rural area of Texas. This is High Plains, Texas. There's not a lot out there and you're just |
| 1:21.2 | driving mile after mile after mile of sort of rolling land. And then Google Maps tells you to turn |
| 1:27.4 | off onto this dirt road which doesn't make a lot of sense. And then all of a sudden sort of behind |
| 1:33.2 | this large electrical substation is this enormous warehouse in the middle of nowhere. |
| 1:41.7 | It's about three-foot-ball fields long. It's a white warehouse type metal frame facility. |
| 1:50.0 | And what's sort of fascinating about it is that lining both sides are these giant air-cooling |
| 1:57.8 | machines. As Russell drove down the dirt road towards the warehouse, he felt mud |
| 2:03.5 | welling up around his tires. Then he noticed an 18-wheel truck stuck in the mud ahead. He called |
| 2:10.4 | the warehouse manager who came to pick him up in a golf cart and the two sped off down this dirt road. |
| 2:16.5 | Now I can see him get nervous because it's pretty clear that the battery on this golf |
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