{"id":19387,"date":"2024-12-10T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/abkhazia-shuts-down-internet-to-combat-illegal-mining\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T14:13:00","slug":"abkhazia-shuts-down-internet-to-combat-illegal-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/abkhazia-shuts-down-internet-to-combat-illegal-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Abkhazia Shuts Down Internet to Combat Illegal Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 10, from midnight to 7:00 AM, internet providers in Abkhazia, at the behest of authorities, disconnected internet access across the republic to counteract illegal mining. This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interfax.ru\/world\/996787\">Interfax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The government has established a task force to ensure the region&#8217;s energy security. Timur Dzhindzholia, CEO of Chernomorenergo, stated at a task force meeting that mining farms operating in Abkhazia consume 40-45 MW of power, or more than 350 million kWh annually.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis is half or even slightly more than our current deficit. Even in such a difficult situation, illegal mining continues, further exacerbating the crisis, which affects the entire population of the country today,\u201d added Dzhindzholia.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The republic&#8217;s authorities have already suspended classes in schools and kindergartens for a week. Since December 9, electricity is supplied twice during the day for two hours and 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A decision on whether to declare a state of emergency will be made by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that illegal miners have become the main cause of the energy crisis in Abkhazia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 10, from midnight to 7:00 AM, internet providers in Abkhazia, at the behest of authorities, disconnected internet access across the republic to counteract illegal mining. This was reported by Interfax. The government has established a task force to ensure the region&#8217;s energy security. Timur Dzhindzholia, CEO of Chernomorenergo, stated at a task force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1561,1137,504,1445],"class_list":["post-19387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-abkhazia","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-energy","tag-internet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"26","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}