Datacenters engaged in industrial-scale crypto mining do not emit carbon dioxide (CO₂) or any other pollutants. Crypto miners buy and use electricity from power generation facilities that emit CO2.
“Datacenters…are merely server farms engaged in computation. Aside from logistics packaging, there are no effluents or sources of waste that must be disposed [of] on-site. The inputs to a data center engaged in digital asset mining are electricity and mining computers, and the outputs are units of digital assets that exist on distributed ledgers around the world,” according to the Bitcoin backers.
Bitcoin backers pointed out that crypto mining does not cause pollution. CO2 emissions are associated with electricity generation. In reality, the majority of crypto miners are “migrating away from fossil-based electricity generation and increasingly targeting renewable resources…”
They concluded their rebuttal letter by stating that public officials clearly need the education to ensure that they understand that the cryptocurrency mining industry does not contribute to the environmental problems raised by House Democrats.
