Senator Warren Targets Bitcoin Miner Greenidge’s Environmental Footprint

Senator Warren Targets Bitcoin Miner Greenidge’s Environmental Footprint
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) questioned the environmental footprint of Greenidge Generation’s (GREE) bitcoin mining operation in New York state in a detailed letter to the publicly traded company’s CEO. Warren wrote Jeffrey Kirt that she was concerned about the company’s energy usage and impact on the environment and consumers.“Given the extraordinarily high energy usage and carbon emissions associated with Bitcoin mining, mining operations at Greenidge and other plants raise concerns about their impacts on the global environment, on local ecosystems, and on consumer electricity costs,” she wrote, asking for a detailed response by Dec. 17.Greenidge’s New York mining facility…