[s73v3r_]

More like, they'll threaten to leave, and the local government will be pressured into continuing the subsidy to keep them. Or the new location will give more money. All while they don't do what they originally were supposed to be doing to get the subsidy in the first place.

[darawk]

I don't see what that has to do with anything? Give them a rebate on their electricity consumption. That's all you have to do.

[s73v3r_]

So make things more complex for very little gain.

[darawk]

And your solution is what? To ban bitcoin mining? That sounds quite a bit more complicated. Not to mention that it solves the problem in the specific case and not the general case, like mine.