{"id":7639,"date":"2021-04-29T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T13:00:14","slug":"beijing-starts-inquiry-into-data-centre-firms-involvement-in-power-sapping-cryptocurrency-mining-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=7639","title":{"rendered":"Beijing starts inquiry into data centre firms\u2019 involvement in power-sapping cryptocurrency mining operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostBeijing\u2019s city authorities have started an inquiry into the involvement of the capital\u2019s data centre providers in cryptocurrency mining, a power-intensive operation that could undermine the nation\u2019s efforts to reduce emissions.The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology released on Tuesday an \u201cemergency notice\u201d, which was seen and confirmed by the South China Morning Post, asking data centre operators to report their participation in cryptocurrency mining, the amount of\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3131647\/beijing-starts-inquiry-data-centre-firms-involvement-power-sapping\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostBeijing\u2019s city authorities have started an inquiry into the involvement of the capital\u2019s data centre providers in cryptocurrency mining, a power-intensive operation that could undermine the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}