For the past year and a half, the loud whirring of tens of thousands of high-power computers filled a cavernous warehouse round-the-clock, contrasting sharply with the quiet forests of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
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An ethnic Tibetan woman in China's Sichuan Province carries components of cryptocurrency mining machines that were recently shut down. (Photo by Ding Gang, Caixin)
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