Yes, I have heard that
. But seems to be made up/partial reason.
That was my initial guess, but I had to dig a little further, the explosion was very serious, it killed 12 people and about 20 miners are trapped, and this was not the first explosion this year, this seems to have led the authorities to want to investigate the matter.
As a precaution, coal-based power stations in these regions have also started conducting self -inspection over security measures and have subsequently cut off power for big data centers in the area.
So while the explosion did not cause a black-out in the entire Xinjiang region, it did cause a major shutdown in most coal power stations, as the same article reads:
The founder of Chinese bitcoin exchange AEX, who only goes by 37 Degrees on Weibo and also owns bitcoin mining farms in China, said on the social media that "big data centers in Xinjiang have basically all been shut down to conduct safety drills."
Although bitcoin mining farms in the region don't have security issues themselves, the major coal mine incident in Xinjiang's Hutubi County has caused power suspension at least for the time being.
Partially could be hashnest. I don't know what their complete hashrate is, but it's not any small home miner.
They
announced outage from 16-Apr (powerplant inspection or something ) and still didn't ann being back online.
hashnets's farm is also located in Xinjiang and so it has no power to operate, and they won't have it until the "inspection" on coal-based plants is over and they are given the green light to turn them back on.
