Biden Bans Chinese Bitcoin Mine Near U.S. Nuclear Missile Base

Perhaps relocate to Hanna, WY? They need free heat [1] for a rec center than can't afford the fossil gas bill. Only about 120 miles away [2]. Does not apply of course if the purpose of the installation was espionage or similar.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2024/05/06/in-a-boom-town-gone-b...

[2] https://maps.app.goo.gl/PU9kWtEL9ygr9YV68

A crypto mining farm is a bunch of electricity running a bunch of ASIC chips that try to guess a number between 1 and some huge number. What does this have to do with physical espionage? Are we implying the spies built their spy school next to the target?

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/bitcoin-mine-biden-ban...

... and initial paragraphs:

> Biden Bans Chinese Bitcoin Mine Near U.S. Nuclear Missile Base

> An investigation identified national security risks posed by a crypto facility in Wyoming. It is near an Air Force base and a data center doing work for the Pentagon.

> President Biden on Monday ordered a company with Chinese origins to shut down and sell the Wyoming cryptocurrency mine it built a mile from an Air Force base that controls nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles.

> The cryptomining facility, which operates high-powered computers in a data center near the F.E. Warren base in Cheyenne, “presents a national security risk to the United States,” the president said in an executive order, because its equipment could be used for surveillance and espionage.

The executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...