Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is reportedly contemplating turning to nuclear energy, amid power shortage in the country.
In a recent event, the head of state was quoted as saying,
“We are already feeling the first signs of a shortage of electricity in Kazakhstan…Therefore, looking into the future, we will have to make inherently unpopular decisions on the construction of a nuclear power plant.”
This is an important development given the country’s acute energy shortage, on the back of the rapid development of cryptocurrency mining. Having said that, the energy ministry had previously estimated that the mining data centers consume energy close to 3.6 million kW h per month, which is equivalent to about 24 thousand medium-sized
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