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Salvadoran President Shares Video of Volcano-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility
29.9.2021
On Tuesday, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele shared a video of a bitcoin mine operating adjacent to a volcano. Bukele discussed the volcano-powered bitcoin mining on June 9 when he talked about the “95MW of 100% clean, 0 emissions geothermal energy from our volcanos.”...
Ohio to host BIT Mining's new 85 MW Bitcoin mining facility
22.9.2021
BIT Mining Limited has entered into a joint venture agreement with Viking Data Centers to develop a Bitcoin mining site in Ohio
123-Year-Old Hydroelectric Plant Sees New Life Mining Bitcoin — Revenue 3x Higher Than Selling to the Grid
9.7.2021
On Thursday local reports from Mechanicville, the city located in Saratoga County, New York, say that an old hydroelectric plant constructed back in 1897 was almost dismantled, but today the plant is mining bitcoins. The Mechanicville facility is considered one of the oldest renewable energy plants...
Bitcoin Miner Greenidge Generation Plans to Develop South Carolina Mining Facility
4.7.2021
On Friday, the bitcoin mining operation Greenidge Generation Holdings announced the company is expanding to South Carolina in order to develop the firm’s next bitcoin mining facility. Greenidge details that the carbon-neutral Spartanburg facility will be ready in 2021 or early 2022. Bitcoin...
Square Takes a Swipe at the Bitcoin Energy Debate With $5 Million Solar Mining Investment
6.6.2021
As the conversation about Bitcoin’s energy consumption reaches a fever pitch, Jack Dorsey’s payment provider Square has unveiled plans to fund a sustainable bitcoin mining facility in conjunction with Blockstream. Mining Project to Serve as Scalable Proof of Concept Bitcoin faces...
Jack Dorsey’s Square Inc. to invest $5M in Blockstream Bitcoin mining facility
5.6.2021
Blockstream is a leading blockchain development company founded by Adam Back in 2014
UK Police Raid Alleged Cannabis Farm, Finds Bitcoin Mining Facility Stealing Power
31.5.2021
Police from the UK executed a raid in an industrial unit in the West Midlands county expecting to find a cannabis farm, but instead found a big bitcoin mining facility, that was coincidentally bypassing the controls from the local power utility company to siphon energy from the main grid, stealing...
2 Cents per Kilowatt Hour: Bitfarms to Launch a 210 MW Bitcoin Mining Operation in Argentina
21.4.2021
The Canadian publicly traded bitcoin mining company Bitfarms has announced a deal that will see the company developing a 210 megawatt (MW) mining farm in Argentina. Bitfarms says that the company was able to secure a low electricity rate at $0.02 per kWh during the contractual period....
Chinese investors reboot Iranian Bitcoin mining facility
15.4.2021
A Chinese-Iranian Bitcoin mining facility is set to resume operations after being forced to shut down earlier in the year
Argo Blockchain Plans New Bitcoin Mining Facility in Texas
10.2.2021
Argo said the new Texas facility will have access to up to 800 megawatts of cheap, renewable energy
Organizations File Lawsuit Against New York Town to Prevent Bitcoin Mining Facility Expansion
25.12.2020
Organizations led by an environmental organization filed a lawsuit against the U.S. town Torrey in New York for giving the green light to expand a bitcoin mining facility at the Greenidge Generation power plant. Environmental Organization Leads Lawsuit Against New York Town for Approving Plan...
Bitcoin Miner Marathon Agrees to Deal That Cuts Electricity Costs by 38% With US Power Company
15.10.2020
Nasdaq-listed Marathon Patent Group has agreed to a joint venture deal with U.S. independent power producer Beowulf Energy to deliver cheap electricity for its bitcoin mining operations in the country’s north. In a statement on Tuesday, Marathon said that it will co-locate a bitcoin mining...
Bitcoin Mining Facility With Room for 50,000 Rigs Set to Launch in Kazakhstan
21.8.2020
The 180 megawatt facility that will be able to host 50,000 bitcoin mining rigs is set to launch sometime in early September
HIVE Blockchain Acquires Bitcoin Mining Facility for $2.8M
30.3.2020
HIVE will start to provide support for Bitcoin mining with the acquisition of a facility in Quebec