Amid political tensions between the United States and China, officials are reportedly looking into mining facilities that have the potential to affect U.S. national security.
Officials within the United States government were reportedly keeping tabs on certain cryptocurrency mining operations with ties to China.directly to the Chinese government, raising concerns over operations in close proximity to military bases and other areas connected to national security. One of the sites reportedly being monitored by authorities was a mining operation in Wyoming near a Microsoft data center that supported some of the Pentagon’s operations.
“Microsoft has no direct indications of malicious activities by this entity,” said the firm in a report on the operation. “However, pending further discovery, we suggest the possibility that the computing power of an industrial-level cryptomining operation, along with the presence of an unidentified number of Chinese nationals in direct proximity to Microsoft’s Data Center and one of three strategic-missile bases in the U.S., provides significant threat vectors.
The company, Bit Origin, which converted the infrastructure from a pork processing facility into a crypto data center, reportedly chose the location due to an agreement with local utility providers rather than proximity to the Microsoft facility. The firm shifted its operations from Indiana to Wyoming in September, andThe report highlighted some of the ramifications of establishing mining operations linked to the Chinese government or certain nationals amid political tensions between the U.S.
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