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France faces a familiar problem: it often makes more electricity than it can sell. According to energy researcher Raphaël Bloch, the country wasted about € 80 million worth of power in 2024.
Now, a group of lawmakers wants to put that extra juice to work. They’ve filed Amendment No. 547 with the National Assembly to fold Bitcoin mining into the national energy plan.
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Flexible Mining To Soak Up Excess Energy
Based on reports, Bitcoin rigs can start and stop in seconds. That makes them ideal for soaking up sudden slugs of power that would otherwise vanish. France gets more than 70% of its electricity from nuclear plants.
Those reactors aren’t built to throttle
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