[paulgb]

> And it's heavily skewed towards tapping into that exclusively as that's the cheapest source and PoW is location neutral.

Are there any big miners who are known to be using stranded/wasted energy that would be produced anyway, as opposed to operating stranded plants that would otherwise be shut down or have capacity reduced? I only really follow the publicly traded miners (and with a bearish thesis), and I've seen a lot of miners getting dedicated coal/natural gas capacity but very little in terms of recapturing wasted energy.

And these are (mostly) US-based public companies, so they have the most to gain by projecting an ESG image.