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☆ U.S. orders Chinese-backed crypto miner to sell land near nuclear missile base
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Dylan Butts | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen delivers remarks at the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States conference at the Treasury Department in Washington, DC, on September 14, 2023. U.S. President Joe Biden issued an order on Monday forcing a Chinese-backed cryptocurrency mining company to sell land near a Wyoming nuclear missile base, citing national security concerns. The company, MineOne, acquired the real estate in June 2022, placing its operations within a mile of the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, a "strategic missile base and key element of America's nuclear triad," according to the White House. The company's site contained "specialized and foreign-sourced equipment potentially capable of facilitating surveillance and espionage activities," the presidential order said. MineOne was ordered to divest from the land in the next 120 days, and to remove certain improvements and equipment at the property.

Persons: Janet Yellen, Joe Biden, Francis E, Biden, MineOne Organizations: Treasury, Foreign Investment, United States, Treasury Department, Warren Air Force Base, British Virgin Islands Locations: Washington ,, Wyoming, British, United States, U.S

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force is expanding its study of whether service members who worked with nuclear missiles have had unusually high rates of cancer after a preliminary review determined that a deeper examination is needed. In response, medical teams went out to each nuclear missile base to conduct thousands of tests of the air, water, soil and surface areas inside and around each of its three nuclear missile bases; Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. For years the missileers were told in multiple Air Force reviews that there was not cause for concern. While the Air Force review is looking at a broader set of cancers, the number of self-reported NHL cases is striking because the community of missile launch officers is very small.

Persons: We’ve, Keith Beam, missileers, ”, Tory Woodard, ” Woodard, “, Barry Little, We’re Organizations: WASHINGTON, Air Force, Malmstrom Air Force Base, Minot Air Force Base, Warren Air Force Base, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S . Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, DOD, Veterans Affairs, The Air Force, Torchlight, NHL, National Cancer Institute, Torchlight Initiative, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, 341st Missile Locations: Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Iraq, Afghanistan

“When you think about a wind turbine, and even fields of wind turbines, they’ll stretch for miles,” said Staff Sgt. Chase Rose, a UH-1 Huey flight engineer at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. The legislation has the support of wind energy advocates, but they caution against a one-size-fits-all approach. The Air Force continues to “support renewable energy efforts to include wind turbines, and we continue to work with energy industry partners to ensure the country’s green energy needs are met,” said Air Force Maj. Victoria Hight, a spokeswoman for F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming.

Persons: ”, Chase Rose, Jason Ryan, ” Jo Dee Black, ” Black, John Lutton, Victoria Hight Organizations: WASHINGTON, UH, Malmstrom Air Force Base, Air Force, American Clean Power Association, Department of Defense, Energy, Air Force Base, U.S . Air Force, of, ” Air Force, Colorado Rockies, F.E, Warren Air Force Base Locations: Montana, U.S, Nebraska , Colorado , North Dakota , Montana and Wyoming, Wyoming

☆ US officials say they're worried a Chinese-owned bitcoin mine in Wyoming will pose a national security threat, NYT reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The mine is connected to multiple Chinese companies and sits across from a Microsoft data center. The company said that its placement near the data center, which supports the Pentagon, was unrelated. AdvertisementAdvertisementPentagon officials monitoring a Bitcoin operation in Wyoming that sits across from a Microsoft data center and a nearby military base are worried that the owners' ties to China could pose a national security threat, per The New York Times. The Cheyenne, Wyoming, center was one such mine, per the Times. Li Jiaming, the president of Bit Origin Ltd., said that the Microsoft data center or the nearby military base had nothing to do with why the area was chosen.

Persons: —, Francis E, Li Jiaming, Jiaming Organizations: Pentagon, Microsoft, Service, New York Times, Warren Air Force Base, Foreign Investment, Times, Microsoft's Data, The Times, Origin, Officials Locations: Wyoming, China, Cheyenne , Wyoming, Cayman Islands

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