Though many Texans are still suffering in the backwash of a winter tempest that left millions without power and running h2o for days, it's unlikely that the crypto mining farms in the country played much of a role during the crisis.

Speaking to Cointelegraph, Kristy-Leigh Minehan, a mining consultant and master technology officer of NEM Software, said Texas doesn't currently have plenty mining hardware in operation to crusade significant issues in the ability filigree when compared with that of major regions like Sichuan.

According to Minehan, German Bitcoin (BTC) mining operator Northern Data is probable the only ane that could have had a significant impact on the state's power supply. The business firm owns a mining farm in East Texas, with others like HODL Ranch and Layer1 out in Due west Texas. The mining expert added that the hashrate in Texas is not plenty to disrupt the land'southward energy grid, which includes farms that ability their rigs using excess gas formed equally a byproduct of mining oil.

Minehan said many of the mining farms in Texas are powered past a mix of renewables and coal. Though they are still dependent on the country's energy grid, they also have access to generators when needed.

The furnishings of a disaster in Texas or the Southern United States on the Bitcoin hash rate are near statistically insignificant when compared with one in Cathay, whose miners command more than than half the network'south hashing ability. Minehan noted that the BTC hash rate only dropped roughly 10 exhashes per 2d during the recent snowstorm, which isn't markedly more than than the typical 5 EH/southward fluctuations on a twenty-four hours-to-day basis. Blockchain data shows that the hash charge per unit fell from 160 million Th/s on Feb. 11 to 150 million TH/s post-obit the coldest dark of the wintertime storm.

Minehan opined that it was unlikely for mining farms in N America to have the lead on the global hashrate without greater access to the hardware supply lines. She said a major manufacture histrion like Intel — with established supply chains — getting deeper into developing mining chips could potentially turn the tide, but correct now it seems like China will remain the stronghold due to it having directly admission to mining rig manufacturers and the silicon used for chips.