{"id":75043,"date":"2025-06-20T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=75043"},"modified":"2025-06-20T20:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T20:00:18","slug":"norway-plans-to-temporarily-ban-new-bitcoin-crypto-mining-centers-to-conserve-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=75043","title":{"rendered":"Norway Plans to Temporarily Ban New Bitcoin &amp; Crypto Mining Centers to Conserve Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/norway-plans-to-temporarily-ban-new-bitcoin-crypto-mining-centers-to-conserve-energy\">Norway Plans to Temporarily Ban New Bitcoin &amp; Crypto Mining Centers to Conserve Energy<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\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<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/norway-plans-to-temporarily-ban-new-bitcoin-crypto-mining-centers-to-conserve-energy\">Norway Plans to Temporarily Ban New Bitcoin &amp; Crypto Mining Centers to Conserve Energy<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/oscarperez\">Oscar Zarraga Perez<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Magazine Norway Plans to Temporarily Ban New Bitcoin &amp; Crypto Mining Centers to Conserve Energy 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 that it was better to redirect electricity to other industries and economic sectors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":75044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}