Here are two examples.
We're going to go back to the technological aspect. Technology improves and things become more efficient.
The energy sold by Hydro-Québec and many other companies in Alberta and elsewhere is surplus energy that's negotiated with consumer businesses. Whether the customer is a cryptocurrency miner or any other business, it's up to a supplier such as Hydro-Québec to negotiate rates and energy consumed. A large amount of energy has already been negotiated, and certain businesses have managed to draw more.
I can give you an example of a company that I know very well, SATO Technologies Corp. It's a Quebec company that mines cryptocurrency and has established itself in the communities where it operates and offers waste heat turbines, for example.
Cryptocurrency mining uses energy and produces heat, which is redistributed to feed heating systems that serve the city. This is true. The business works with the city to create an ecosystem.
This very efficient reutilization of energy creates value for the business and the cryptocurrency mining system, which in turn creates new businesses and, at the same time, helps establish a modern infrastructure that the city otherwise would not have.