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Posted by troglo-byte 12/22/2025

Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center(www.space.com)
162 points | 162 commentspage 2
Waterluvian 12/23/2025|
Some days I just can’t get over how we’re just the dumbest ##^*ing species to ever visit space.

Oh let’s look at what the humans are up to with their climate change problem. Oh wow they’ve got giant data centers at work on the problem. I guess maybe it’s worth the extra heat. Let’s see what they’re calculati— nope they’re just collecting and trading numbers.

iJohnDoe 12/23/2025||
You’re overall point and sentiment isn’t wrong. As a species, we do tend to focus on things that aren’t for the collective good. If some collective good actually happens, then it’s almost guaranteed another group will come along to undo it.

We’re not a species that will likely ever reach singularity (unified, fully cooperative humanity). We operate in packs and if we don’t have a pack we’re loyal to then it’s every man for themselves.

ramblerman 12/23/2025||
> Some days I just can’t get over how we’re just the dumbest ##^*ing species to ever visit space

I also think we are pretty dumb. But what reference point makes you think we are either smarter or dumber than other spacefaring species

Waterluvian 12/23/2025|||
There is none. I just need to believe intelligent life trends much higher than this.
mrguyorama 12/24/2025||||
Any species able to visit us would be definitionally smarter than us, since they somehow break the rules of physics as we know them, so they either have way better math and data, or are magic, which frankly I would treat as "smarter"
tbrownaw 12/23/2025|||
> *But what reference point makes you think we are either smarter or dumber than other spacefaring species"

Us being the dumbest spacefaring species does not necessarily imply the existence of spacefaring species other than us.

inatreecrown2 12/23/2025||
funny how somehow similar this image looks to that of a pc motherboard.
quickthrowman 12/23/2025||
This article is useless. Virtually every building rejects heat outside using vapor-compression refrigeration.
t0bia_s 12/23/2025||
Technically any kind of datacenters, not just crypto, produces heat. Clouds, AI, banaking segment, etc.
danny_codes 12/24/2025|
Sure, but those applications may actually do something useful. Crypto mining is entirely useless, except as a way to facilitate black-market transactions.
t0bia_s 12/27/2025||
That is typical narrative of those who are teriffied of uknown. Or well functionial alternative transaction system that is not under control of central banks.

Fiat is no longer currency that store value. How long do you think that financial system with unlimted debt could least?

anArbitraryOne 12/23/2025||
I learned about turning energy into useful work and having heat as a byproduct, but never thought about turning it into useless work
hulitu 12/23/2025||
> Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center

That's how they call Area 51 now ?

johnnienaked 12/23/2025||
What a waste
krautburglar 12/23/2025||
Ok. Now point at one of the AI datacenters for making titty pics and get back to us. Absolute corporate shilling / distraction.
NedF 12/23/2025||
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rvba 12/23/2025|
The government(s) could tax bitcoin mining servers with 1000% tax.
toenail 12/23/2025|
That would just make miners move somewhere with more favorable regulation and taxation, and nothing would change. Funny how taxes work
danny_codes 12/24/2025|||
And then we wouldn’t be wasting time and energy on it. Someone else would be. Seems like a net win for us, since the entire industry produces zero value. This is like lamenting the departure of the industry of digging holes and filling them in again.
toenail 12/25/2025||
Ah, the old bitcoin has no value to me, so it can't be valuable for anyone else argument.
hackable_sand 12/23/2025|||
What do you mean nothing would change?

What does "That would just make miners move" mean to you?

toenail 12/23/2025||
Mining is one of the most mobile industries on the planet, see what happened when china "banned" mining, they all just moved somewhere else (or kept mining in secrecy). If it's in the US at least it can be regulated.