A controversial Bitcoin mining operation will be allowed to continue operating in the Finger Lakes under a new agreement requiring it to reduce emissions, New York’s environmental regulators said Monday.

The fossil-fuel powered plant, operated by Greenidge Generation, has the capacity to run more than 20,000 computers continuously to solve complex algorithms that release new Bitcoin. Greenridge had been locked in a yearslong legal battle with local environmental advocates and the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which had ruled the plant did not comply with New York’s climate law requiring emissions reductions.

The new deal between Greenridge and state regulators requires the plant to reduce its pollution by 44%, or 282,000 tons of carbon dioxide by 2030.

“The agreement

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