Marat Shikhaliyev said that miners who illegally connected to the power grid consumed at least 86 million kWh of electricity, which caused a significant load on the power grid.:

"Experts record a sharp increase in energy consumption. During the year, consumption in the republic increased by 9%, and in the heating season this figure is even higher."

According to the official, the power grid is now operating in an emergency mode, and the region is not actually ready for the production of digital assets.

Earlier, Dagestan was included in the list of regions where the Russian government imposed a complete ban on cryptocurrency mining until 2031.

In another region of Russia with cheap electricity, the Irkutsk region, power engineers sent 2113 lawsuits to the court against "gray miners" on the facts of illegal use of electricity for cryptocurrency mining