Crypto-printing power plant in Pennsylvania changes hands.
These cryptocurrency operations with their data centers and power plants contribute NO POWER TO THE GRID, provide nothing to the community other than various forms of pollution and higher prices.
And recently the prior mogul is reported to have sold the operation in Carbon County to some crypto corporation based out of Canada.
Bitfarms wants Pennsylvania's power, so it's buying two waste coal plants - Anya Litvak - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Mar 3, 2025 6:22 PM To its investors, Bitfarms said its locations in Pennsylvania are strategic. “Pennsylvania is a conservative business friendly jurisdiction with a notably pro-Bitcoin & pro-energy Democratic Governor (Joshua Shapiro),” an investor presentation highlighted. The Scrubgrass and Panther Creek power plants are also near major metropolitan areas and “major fiber lines.” The company envisions building data centers on the campuses of the power plants, which it could isolate from the grid to ferry all their power to the computers onsite. (emphasis added)
Aerial satellite image from PA state Parks, Forests and Geology Interactive Map showing a power plant, coal waste heaps, and various power plant industrial equipment and some buildings and vehicles in a network of little roads surrounded by forest with trees. The caption reads: Panther Creek power plant. Nesquehoning, Carbon County, Pennsylvania. This coal waste burning power plant provides no power to the grid. It exists for no other purpose but to power data centers printing cryptocurrency. They may be allowed to actually burn tires & construction debris.
The cryptocurrency industry pumped huge amounts of money into the 2024 elections, and now Trump administration dropped charges against a cryptocurrency tycoon, pardoned a cryptocurrency corporation, and now the Trump administration’s justice department will no longer pursue criminal cryptocurrency fraud.
They contribute nothing, they’re not even hooked to the grid, they print “alternative facts” money, and are actively part of worldwide fraud targeting Americans.
And Representative Rob Bresnahan is all in on AI stocks after campaigning on banning stock trades by members of Congress. So he’s going to be pushing to have these power plants and data centers bombarding us with air pollution, noise pollution, light pollution, and putting up water bills even further. And these companies wind up doing boondoggles with local politicians so that the people are shut out of any say in our surroundings.
