When the Miners Came to the Grid
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Description
A warehouse full of computers hums in West Texas. It does not make cars, clothes, or food. It mines Bitcoin. Yet the contract that brought it there may shape the power grid for everyone else. This book follows one real power purchase agreement between Cipher Mining and Luminant and asks a simple question. A single contract might turn energy demand into a tool for cleaner electricity, or it might just shift pollution around. The answer sits inside clauses most people never read, thresholds, penalties, definitions, and curtailment rights. I trace how a flexible computing load can help balance the grid, how contract design decides who pays when the wind dies, and how the same agreement can look green on paper but act gray in practice. By the final chapter, one tension remains unresolved. The contract either made the grid cleaner, or it simply hid the smoke somewhere else.