I think it might be interesting for you, as the chair, to have a separate round of questions. I could second that request.
I'll continue with Mr. St-Jean. The representatives of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP could also add to your remarks.
Getting back to the energy-consuming aspect associated with cryptocurrencies and thus perhaps with blockchains, according to Hydro-Québec, there are 80 cryptocurrency mining businesses in Quebec, including Bitfarms. Those businesses apparently consumed 1.1 terawatt-hours in 2020. That's nearly twice what they used in 2018, and we can expect their consumption will keep increasing. This is equivalent to the amount of energy used by 100,000 homes, or 0.5% of all the energy Hydro-Québec sold in 2020.
Can we expect this upward trend to continue?
Why is this technology so energy-intensive, and could we derive greater benefits from it, in particular by heating the basements of village churches, for example?