On Tuesday morning, Riot voluntarily began to reduce power to Bitcoin mining servers at the Whinstone facility, located northeast of Austin, company spokesperson Trystine Payfer said by email. By Wednesday, the mine had cut energy use by roughly 98%.

[With demand response programs, the] grid operator pays miners when they are asked to shut down or curtail power use.

Whinstone cut power without Ercot officially requesting any reductions

Compute North, a Minnesota-based data center providing crypto mining services, said it’s prepared to shut down an 11 megawatt Texas site to conserve power. Compute North could turn off the Texas center within 10 minutes.