You are missing an important piece of info here.
In most of Canada, electricity is nationalized. The networks and generators are all govt funded, so of course choosing to not serve electricity to users that do nothing useful for society is on the table. Especially when such uses competes with basic heat for citizens.

Many big companies generate their own power in Canada. They even can sell their surplus to the electric company. The crypto boys can just do the same.

That's how a functioning government works: it balances the rules for the greater good.

You do know that Google services for businesses are not free, do you?

The goog has been aggressively selling those "secure, backed up" services for most of a decade. Many orgs rely on what they pay dearly for, including the IEEE.

At last, the Double Dutch sandwich will be useful to the world!

Early this evening, the Council of Elders announced a planetary day of mourning and magnanimity.

K'Nord, Speaker for the Council, spoke thusly:

"Citizens and Podmates, the Council is pleased to announce that after seven and a half full years -- the longest campaign in the history of the Martian Defense Force -- the diabolical mechanized adversary from the blue world has been defeated. Our defense forces, counted in the billions, have finally surrounded and denied the invader the light and warmth it needs to survive. The blueworlders have acknowledged defeat and ceased contact. Ths invasion, at least on this front, is now over.

Let us raise our glasses to mourn the lost gelsacs of at least half our press corps, some of whose entire careers have been dedicated to coverage of this conflict -- and in a spirit of magnanimity in victory, we -- the victors of the Conflict at Endeavour Crater -- must also raise our glasses in awe and respect of our longest-lived and most challenging foe."

Shortly thereafter, a wizened old retired Councilmember, his gelsacs having long ago been ceremonially ground into a fine tartare and shared amongst the Council, wiped a perchlorate tear from his eye: "Well-done, blueworlders. Well-done."