{"id":29491,"date":"2023-01-12T01:55:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/clean-energy-bill-could-spell-trouble-for-oregon-datacenters-the-register\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T01:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:55:35","slug":"clean-energy-bill-could-spell-trouble-for-oregon-datacenters-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/clean-energy-bill-could-spell-trouble-for-oregon-datacenters-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean energy bill could spell trouble for Oregon datacenters \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A law bill introduced in the Oregon state assembly has carbon dioxide emissions from crypto farming operations and datacenters in its sights.<\/p>\n

House Bill 2816<\/a> [PDF] would require any person who owns or operates a datacenter or cryptocurrency mining operation in the US state to cut greenhouse gas emissions from electricity use by 60 percent below baseline levels by 2027 and curb all emissions by 2040. Lawmakers would like to impose civil penalties of $12,000 per megawatt-hour per day on those that fail to comply with the rules, with additional daily penalties for companies flouting the rules.<\/p>\n

If you’re wondering what those baseline emissions are, the bill specifies 0.428 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per megawatt-hour of electricity consumed. According to the EPA this is roughly equivalent to the average volume of carbon dioxide emissions for every megawatt consumed in 2019.<\/p>\n

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