{"id":474032,"date":"2025-08-11T03:30:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=747527"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:30:35","slug":"ethiopia-freezes-new-power-permits-for-crypto-miners-amid-grid-constraints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/11\/ethiopia-freezes-new-power-permits-for-crypto-miners-amid-grid-constraints\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Freezes New Power Permits for Crypto Miners Amid Grid Constraints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/concerns-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ethiopia Freezes New Power Permits for Crypto Miners Amid Grid Constraints\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Ethiopia is halting new electric power permits for data mining companies, effectively freezing the expansion of crypto-mining operations due to limited capacity. The decision follows a surge in interest, with 25 bitcoin mining firms already operating and nearly 20 more awaiting approval, drawn by Ethiopia\u2019s cheap tariffs and abundant hydropower. EEP had marketed power sales [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is halting new electric power permits for data mining companies, effectively freezing the expansion of crypto-mining operations due to limited capacity. The decision follows a surge in interest, with 25 bitcoin mining firms already operating and nearly 20 more awaiting approval, drawn by Ethiopia\u2019s cheap tariffs and abundant hydropower. EEP had marketed power sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":474033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-474032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}