Crypto craze has Hydro-Québec CEO's phone 'ringing off the hook'

For Hydro-Québec, the bitcoin boom may be too much of a good thing.
Canada’s biggest electric utility has been inundated with requests to supply electricity to cryptocurrency miners eager to set up shop in Quebec — more than it can deliver.
Chief executive officer Eric Martel has “received hundreds of applications” from such ventures in the past few weeks, which would need more than 9,000 megawatts of energy — about one-quarter of the utility’s total ge