{"id":96099,"date":"2025-06-21T06:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/norway-plans-to-temporarily-ban-new-bitcoin-crypto-mining-centers-to-conserve-energy\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T06:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:15:30","slug":"norway-plans-to-temporarily-ban-new-bitcoin-crypto-mining-centers-to-conserve-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/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> <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><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>Today, the government of Norway announced its plans to introduce a temporary ban on establishing new Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining data centres. The government concluded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}