CNN CNN Newsroom With Pamela Brown June 4, 2024 23:54:00
World's bitcoin mining is now in the u.s. >> reporter: it creates some jobs, not many, and the industry is now trying to be green. this farm in an old apple juice factory is, as they say, 92.5% hydropowered but still. >> they take up huge amounts of electricity. >> reporter: global mining uses more electricity than some entire countries, small ones like norway. >> is there any way of achieving this without using quite so much power? >> no. >> reporter: the price worth paying, he says, for an unhackable currency in this digital age and perhaps a future for places like east wenatchee, washington...