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Pakistan Bets Big: 2,000 MW Diverted to Power Bitcoin Miners and AI Boom
Pakistan Bets Big: 2,000 MW Diverted to Power Bitcoin Miners and AI Boom
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In a bold—some might say desperate—move, Pakistan just earmarked enough electricity to light up a mid-sized city exclusively for Bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure. That’s 2,000 megawatts of power siphoned from a grid already notorious for load-shedding.
The play? Attract crypto miners fleeing China’s crackdown and AI firms hungry for cheap compute. Critics are already calling it a ’speculative Hail Mary’ for an economy that can’t decide if it loves or hates dollar substitutes.
One bureaucrat probably muttered ’to the moon’ unironically during the planning meeting. Meanwhile, citizens brace for more blackouts—because nothing says ’digital future’ like candlelit Zoom calls.
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