The mining steadfast volition astir treble the its existing infrastructure, adding up to 50 Megawatts to the 36 Megawatts already successful use.
The mining steadfast volition astir treble the its existing infrastructure, adding up to 50 Megawatts to the 36 Megawatts already successful use.
Bitcoin mining steadfast CleanSpark has announced the commencement of operation connected a tract successful Washington, Georgia, acceptable to location 16,000 miners, which could bring the company’s hash complaint full to arsenic precocious arsenic 8.7 EH/s.
The site, which CleanSpark announced the acquisition of successful 2022, would lend to an further 2.2 EH/s of hash complaint for the company. The enlargement is estimated to outgo astir $16 cardinal according to the property merchandise sent to Bitcoin Magazine.
“The mining instrumentality fleet astatine the caller signifier volition dwell of Antminer S19j Pro and Antminer S19 XP models, the newest and astir power-efficient models of bitcoin mining machines disposable today,” states the release.
“When we purchased the Washington tract successful August, we were assured astir our quality to rapidly expand, adding this 50MW to the existing 36MW of infrastructure,” Zach Bradford, CleanSpark’s CEO commented. “This 2nd signifier much than doubles the size of the existing operation. We are looking guardant to expanding our narration with the Washington City assemblage and to beryllium capable to enactment the operation jobs that volition travel with this expansion.”
Scott Garrison, vice president of concern improvement astatine the firm, highlighted however the tract “uses chiefly low-carbon sources of power, employs newest procreation tech, and is among the astir power-efficient and sustainable bitcoin mining operations.”
Despite the caller wider downturn successful the mining industry, CleanSpark has seen a singular enlargement from conscionable 2.1 EH/s successful January 2022, to 6.2 EH/s successful December 2022. This expansion, alongside another tract buildout successful Sandersville, Georgia, is acceptable to proceed that accelerated maturation successful the coming year.