According to their web site they have deactivated a portion of their units, are installing a a Sound Wall barrier and will convert to immersion cooling. Are those things not true?
When I was a kid my home town built a "community support" race track at the fairgrounds. Then the community support turned into people complaining about the the noise Stock Car's make. Sounds like it could be a similar situation.
Sam
Very true. Thing is, some posters don't care about truth and cherry-pick their 'facts' to support their trolling.
Cases in point:
But spending money to upgrade the power gird so people don't die, nope not in Texas
Their grid IS being massively expanded. The huge wind & solar farms are largely financed by <drum roll please> the mining farms that serve as a huge baseline load for the power being produced. Since you seem to not realize that wind & solar power are a 'use it or lose it' proposition, having mining farms as a baseline load that can be switched on & off is what allows expansion of the power sources.
That brings us to
But don't worry when the Texas power grid can't take it again, the people will pay them not to mine
True. ERCOT pays the farm to curtail their power usage --
so the power can be sent to folks that need it. This is mainly during heat waves. Once the heat drops and the other loads lessen the mines then switch on again. As said earlier, it's not a matter of the grid not being able to 'take it', it's a matter of the designed-in load balancing that has allowed for expanding power production w/o wasting the power being produced.