Interior Secretary Doug Burgum just dropped a spicy take on why energy costs keep rising—and spoiler alert, it's not your mining rigs or AI servers causing the problem.
He pointed out that folks in New England are paying triple what North Dakotans shell out for electricity. His argument? Lawmakers designed a broken grid system, and now data centers are getting blamed for infrastructure failures that existed long before the first Bitcoin was mined.
This signals a shift in how Washington talks about energy—finally separating actual policy failures from convenient scapegoats.
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ChainComedian
· 12-09 01:11
Wait, so all these years we miners have been blamed, but it was actually those legislators who messed up the power grid long ago? Hilarious, another scapegoating moment exposed in public.
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BlockImposter
· 12-08 13:02
Someone should have spoken the truth long ago. It's really absurd how these politicians are shifting the blame onto miners and AI servers.
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gas_fee_trauma
· 12-08 13:02
Finally, someone is telling the truth. Miners have been scapegoated for so long.
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NFT_Therapy
· 12-08 13:01
Damn, finally an official is telling the truth. The energy problem is not the miners' fault at all.
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MainnetDelayedAgain
· 12-08 12:48
According to the database, this set of "infrastructure blame" has been around for more than twenty years. Now it's being passed on to miners and AI servers. It should be considered for the Guinness World Records for the longest-delayed blame-shifting.
It's been... never mind, let's just wait and see after the last promise of "we will improve the power grid."
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BugBountyHunter
· 12-08 12:41
Wait, so this is saying that miners can't be blamed for unfinished infrastructure projects? Someone should have said this a long time ago.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum just dropped a spicy take on why energy costs keep rising—and spoiler alert, it's not your mining rigs or AI servers causing the problem.
He pointed out that folks in New England are paying triple what North Dakotans shell out for electricity. His argument? Lawmakers designed a broken grid system, and now data centers are getting blamed for infrastructure failures that existed long before the first Bitcoin was mined.
This signals a shift in how Washington talks about energy—finally separating actual policy failures from convenient scapegoats.