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Legacy coal plants are getting more unreliable
Cycling increases and deferred maintenance lead to higher forced outage rates
Cycling increases and deferred maintenance lead to higher forced outage rates
Sioux Energy Center adds to a growing number of coal-powered Bitcoin data centers
Bitcoin keeps the Scrubgrass plant open, enables site clean up at the cost of more emissions