{"id":28619,"date":"2025-05-26T13:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28619"},"modified":"2025-05-26T13:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:31:47","slug":"pakistan-taps-surplus-power-capacity-to-fuel-bitcoin-mining-ai-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=28619","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Taps Surplus Power Capacity to Fuel Bitcoin Mining, AI Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Pakistan has committed 2,000 megawatts of electricity to bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence data centers, the country\u2019s finance ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The committed energy is being directed from coal-fired power plants that are currently running at 15% capacity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-25\/pakistan-allocates-2-000-mw-capacity-to-power-bitcoin-mining?sref=3REHEaVI\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>, in an initiative spearheaded by the Pakistan Crypto Council.<\/p>\n<p>By tapping surplus energy, the government hopes to turn a liability into an asset. Officials say the plan will create tech-related jobs and help attract overseas capital as the country works to stabilize its fragile economy, which came close to default in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan is also laying the groundwork for a regulatory framework to support its estimated 15 to 20 million cryptocurrency users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has committed 2,000 megawatts of electricity to bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence data centers, the country\u2019s finance ministry said. The committed energy is being directed from coal-fired power plants that are currently running at 15% capacity, Bloomberg reports, in an initiative spearheaded by the Pakistan Crypto Council. By tapping surplus energy, the government hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-28619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}