New York State local businesses rally against Crypto Mining Centers

The New York State’s local businesses, labor groups, and several organizations have come together against allotting the city’s old fossil-fuel power plants to build crypto mining centers. The State’s Governor, Kathy Hochul received a letter from these businesses appealing to deny permits to transform the Greenidge Generating Station and the Fortistar North Tonawanda power plants into crypto mining farms. The letter’s subject requested for an environmental assessment of Proof-of-Work Cryptocurrency Mining in NYS, followed by the denial of permits for crypto mining farms.