Jack Dorsey, bitcoin miners and others refute claims made by House Democrats who want the agency to investigate the environmental impacts of crypto mining.
— and one of the primary authors on the letter. "The pollution comes from the energy generation source, and all data centers buy electricity off-site, upstream."
"It would be very unusual for the EPA to regulate the kind of computation that's occurring within a data center. That's clearly outside of their remit," Castle Island Venture's Nic Carter, who helped to write the rebuttal, told CNBC. While the EPA does regulate power plants, very few PoW mining companies actually own the power production, according to the rebuttal.
Huffman and his fellow House colleagues also take issue with the specialized computing hardware, which they claim creates "major electronic waste challenges" as millions of devices quickly become obsolete, leading to large amounts of electronic waste.
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