内容摘要："We will continue to work with Medway Council on our planning application, reviewing all comments and making any updates, following the consultation period."

"We will continue to work with Medway Council on our planning application, reviewing all comments and making any updates, following the consultation period."

"Four hours later we're still out, and I come back to a Christmas lunch that's been under the grill for hours," he laughed.He recalled a wildfire in Lancashire he and his team were called to.

"We went down initially for 24 hours, 10 days later we managed to get back home," Mr Aitken said.Mr Gardner said: "There's no predictability about it either, you know?"It could happen at anytime, day or night. You don't get any warnings."

Tackling wildfires is a long, hot and arduous job, Mr Gardner said.Getting all the equipment up the Cumbrian fells, sometimes on foot, is an "absolute nightmare", he added.

"You can't work for long in the fire kit because it does get very hot," he said.

"You're literally stood, like, a metre or two metres away."Finding locations for a new plant or to tap into existing ones is the easy part though.

The company still faces resistance from some authorities and companies which see bitcoin as an energy-greedy and selfish use of electricity that might otherwise be used by rural people.But the company insists that the incentive is always to sell to the highest buyer and that will always, they say, be the local community.

History tells us that without incentives or rules in place, bitcoin mining at scale can put strain on public energy grids. In Kazakhstan in 2020-2021 a mining boom increased energy usage in the country by 7% before the government clamped down and clipped the wings of the burgeoning industry.In the US - bitcoin mining's new mecca - conflicts between miners, locals and residents have been common when electricity is in high demand.