El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, has told the country’s state-owned geothermal electric company to come up with a plan to offer power for Bitcoin mining data centers. The move follows the country becoming the first to recognize the controversial cryptocurrency as legal tender, despite Bitcoin’s environmental impact and the lack of Internet penetration in El Salvador. “I’ve just instructed the president of LaGeo (our state-owned geothermal electric company), to put up a plan to offer facilities for Bitcoin mining with very cheap, 100 percent clean, 100 percent renewable, 0 emissions…
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