Mining for cryptocurrency affects rural electric power

Iowa Lakes Electric Coop shares power source Cornbelt Electric Power with Grundy Center, site of a major Bitcoin mining operation

By Amy H. Peterson - Staff Writer
Posted 11/17/22

It doesn’t seem possible that currency can be created from computers performing mathematical equations, but that’s the nugget of what cryptocurrency is. Walls of computers and servers …

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