{"id":159993,"date":"2025-06-13T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptodnes.bg\/en\/?p=159993"},"modified":"2025-06-13T18:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:58:47","slug":"pakistan-turns-unused-power-into-bitcoin-and-ai-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptodnes.bg\/en\/pakistan-turns-unused-power-into-bitcoin-and-ai-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Turns Unused Power Into Bitcoin and AI Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"
Officials say roughly 2 gigawatts\u2014about one-seventh of the country\u2019s generation capacity\u2014often sit idle, especially on cool winter nights when demand can plunge below 12 GW.<\/p>\n
Instead of paying millions in \u201ccapacity charges\u201d to keep underused plants on standby, the government now wants that surplus to crunch algorithms.<\/p>\n
Under a program rolling out this year, aging thermal stations will be retrofitted to host crypto-mining farms and data centers focused on artificial-intelligence workloads.<\/p>\n