Crypto mining operations—which are far more entrepreneurial than their data center cousins, with far less ESG sensitivity—may be facing a reckoning over their carbon footprints. 

On June 3, New York’s legislature passed the first statewide moratorium on new cryptocurrency mining, aiming the pause at energy-intensive operations that are powered by fossil fuels.

 

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