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Cash crops: Dutch use bitcoin mining to grow tulips

Cash crops: Dutch use bitcoin mining to grow tulips

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Heat from bitcoin mining servers heats the tulip greenhouse near Amsterdam, saving on energy bills. Tulips and bitcoin have both been associated with financial bubbles in their day, but in a giant greenhouse near Amsterdam, the Dutch are trying to make them work together. Engineer Bert de Groot inspects the six bitcoin miners as they …

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Meet the start-up that's using robotics, AI and 'crop-by-plant' to transform how crops are grown

Meet the start-up that’s using robotics, AI and ‘crop-by-plant’ to transform how crops are grown

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All sectors are adopting Industry 4.0 technologies, which range from artificial intelligence to robotics and machine learning. But when Sam Watson-Jones, a fourth-generation farmer, returned to the family business a decade ago, he found the farming sector had been left behind somewhat. “When I went to a field and decided it was the right time …

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