Russian region struggles to keep up with Bitcoin mining energy demands By Cointelegraph

As cryptocurrency mining activity grows increasingly common in Russia, one local region is struggling to maintain power stability amid massive inflows of new crypto mining operations.

Russia’s Irkutsk Oblast, a federal region and Russia’s major center of trade routes from China, experienced a fourfold increase in energy consumption in 2021 due to mining activities, local news agency TASS reported on Wednesday.