{"id":278712,"date":"2025-06-20T20:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/norway-plans-to-temporarily-ban-new-bitcoin-crypto-mining-centers-to-conserve-energy\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:08:00","slug":"norway-plans-to-temporarily-ban-new-bitcoin-crypto-mining-centers-to-conserve-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/norway-plans-to-temporarily-ban-new-bitcoin-crypto-mining-centers-to-conserve-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway Plans To Temporarily Ban New Bitcoin &#038; Crypto Mining Centers To Conserve Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_61\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Today, the government of Norway <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/norway-plans-temporary-ban-power-intensive-cryptocurrency-mining-2025-06-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> its plans to introduce a temporary ban on establishing new Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining data centres.<\/p>\n<p>The government concluded that it was better to redirect electricity to other industries and economic sectors and that it would be better for the national interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Labour Party government has a clear intention to limit the mining of cryptocurrency in Norway as much as possible,\u201d said the Minister for Digitalization and Public Administration Karianne Tung.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling Labour Party has attributed the upcoming ban to the excessive electricity consumption by power-intensive <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/guides\/what-is-bitcoin\">Bitcoin<\/a> and crypto mining operations, which it says offer little benefit to the broader economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/guides\/bitcoin-mining\">mining<\/a> is very power-intensive and generates little in the way of jobs and income for the local community,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA temporary ban could be introduced during the autumn of 2025,\u201d according to the government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/norway-plans-to-temporarily-ban-new-bitcoin-crypto-mining-centers-to-conserve-energy\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Today, the government of Norway announced its plans to introduce a temporary ban on establishing new Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining data centres. The government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}