It has come to pass that Cipher Mining, that diligent burrower in the digital earth, has cast its net wider, acquiring a power site in Ohio. A grand gesture, certainly. A “strategic move,” they call it. As if strategy were not merely a gilded cage for necessity. This Ohio land, you see, is meant to feed the insatiable hunger of their machines – for Bitcoin, yes, but also for “high-performance computing.” HPC. A cold, efficient phrase. Another way to say ‘endless calculation.’ One wonders what calculations these are, and to what end. Is it not enough that the world toils? Must we now have machines to toil for us, even as we wander aimlessly? 🤔