Eskom CEO says the utility is looking at opportunities to support Bitcoin mining, artificial intelligence, and data centres

[mylesillidge]

Eskom Bitcoin mining plans

Eskom Group CEO Dan Marokane says South Africa’s state-owned power utility is looking into opportunities to support Bitcoin mining, artificial intelligence, and data centres for its future growth.

Speaking at the BizNews Conference earlier this year, Marokane said data centres and Bitcoin mining were fuelling the demand for electricity in the United States.

 

[wingnut771]

What will they power it with? Hopes and dreams? Most of the coal power will be broken or decommissioned in 10 years time.

 

[Swa]

Ok...

 

[wingnut771]

 

[Benedict A55h0le not]

SmartCoin, SmartCloud, and SmartAI for a Smart Eskom!

 

[HAL 9000]

What will they power it with? Hopes and dreams? Most of the coal power will be broken or decommissioned in 10 years time.

 

[wingnut771]

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Rather skip the middleman and go straight to egoli gas:

 

[oros]

Here comes a thing..... A comedian in the making???

 

[dontcryforme]

Bitcoin mining = ANC Cadres are rewarded with tenders and dont deliver
artificial intelligence = ANC Cadres are rewarded with tenders and dont deliver
data centres = ANC Cadres are rewarded with tenders and dont deliver

 

[Supervan II]

How about just sticking to fulfilling your mandate? You know: PROVIDING ELECTRICITY!!!!!!!

Fuggen idjits - the whole lot of them!

 

[wingnut771]

How about just sticking to fulfilling your mandate? You know: PROVIDING ELECTRICITY!!!!!!!

Fuggen idjits - the whole lot of them!

It gets boring sitting around doing fokkal.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Dan, how about you guys focus on your core operational requirement... provide power.

You don't need to do anything else, just that, and do it at a reasonable price.

 

[wingnut771]

Dan, how about you guys focus on your core operational requirement... provide power.

You don't need to do anything else, just that, and do it at a reasonable price.

Cost price (not BEE 3-5x inflated cost), power generation is not for profit.

 

[FiestaST]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1939244808511566302

 

[PAYBACK]

When are we going to stop giving these mamparas a platform to spout such utter tripe?

 

[longboy]

As @wingnut771 would say

There is no word for 'Bitcoin' or 'AI' in Pedi.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Fool or a late April fool?

 

[Fuzzbox]

Not SMART at all.

 

[saor]

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

these idiots can barely spell Ai now want to implement it?

first stop load shedding like forever, then we can talk about all the other things in the to do list, like broken billing,
vandalism, intimidation criminality, transparency and eventually when we have fixed 100 things before that,

we get to Ai and other 1st world things,

for now, deal with the 3rd world problems like mafias and criminals in your ranks, deal with people knowing exactly where to chop a pylon down to bring us to stage 6,
simple things like that.