By the way, this makes sense; there are lower cooling costs there, especially since most power plants operate at a loss. This way, at least some of them will break even.

The Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation offers miners to relocate to northern regions with excess electricity capacity and discusses the possibility of introducing a separate network tariff

This is not a benefit, but an alternative pricing model.

Bans on mining are already in effect in a number of regions, including the Irkutsk region and the republics of the North Caucasus. The reason is the high load on the energy system.