De Vries

“That’s one of these guns that fires 1,000 rounds a minute — very heavy-duty stuff,” De Vries said in an interview with the Times.

De Vries was instantly sold: “I was like, ‘You really don’t have to say anything else.’

To try to prevent those consequences, De Vries, Ren and other experts are calling on the tech companies to disclose to users how much power and water their queries will consume.

De Vries said there was a second arrest on Tuesday, but the man’s identity remains unclear.

De Vries suggests that approaches such as modifying Bitcoin mining's software could cut down on the power and water needed for this process.