[stevenwliao]

> if paying these miners to stop has the desired effect of reducing the load on the grid, miners not existing would surely have a similar effect.

In a privatized system, a large, predictable, static load would attract additional infrastructure. Assuming how that's how Texas' system works, if these miners did not exist, the peak capacity would be lower.

[stouset]

What on earth is the value of this extra peak capacity if it's being used by miners for low (or realistically, negative) value work?