It's actually good to try to educate people on this and how it works as far as bitcoin is concerned.

What do miners do? They mine.
What do miners "pay"? They pay the cost of electricity to mine.

So what is it they want to do? They want to lower their cost of electricity so they pay less to mine.

A lot of miners tend to migrate (physically) their machines to locations where electricity is cheap, or where there is no other user of that energy. They tend to look for renewable sources of energy, or other natural kind of stuff, like hydro, tidal, solar, wind ... maybe even nuclear. Energy that would just be wasted or not used because they are so far from the rest of humanity or civilization.

See, the actual mining machines do not need to be located where people live. They can be in remote places. Some places are naturally colder, like both ends of the earth, the north and south poles, Iceland, Greenland, Russia, Canada, Santa's Village, whatever.

It's not as big an issue as the naysayers think. Besides, miners who mine where they live, they pay for that electricity anyway, so what's the big deal? Humans are willing to pay $1 per kilowatt to live where they live. Mining machines tend to look for whereever the cost of electricity is below 1 cent per kilowatt hour. 2 is okay. 1 is good. Zero is better.


All this energy not being used for any other purpose then goes on to securing the bitcoin network.

Now, we can all sleep at night knowing our money, or safe haven asset, one that has been performing better than anything else in the market, is secure, and will likely be secure for the next one hundred years.