Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong

Edit: Good responses from everyone, my point in asking this was completely hypothetical, ignoring how hard it would be to implement a restriction. My own thoughts are that requiring the use of renewable energy for high electricity products could help spur the demand for it as now it’s a requirement. Of course companies would fight back, they want money

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    9 months ago

    No, but crypto miners could fund a boom in green energy industry if they bought their own panels, wind turbines, battery banks, etc.

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      9 months ago

      They could. But they won’t.

      You think a bunch of people Mining crypto for greed are gonna altruistically buy green energy?

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        9 months ago

        Not altruistically, but if laws were made and enforced to where green energy was the most financially rewarding way to power their mining rigs, they’d do it.