The Russian industrial mining operator BitCluster will launch in Ethiopia a 120 MW data centre for Bitcoin mining in January 2024, RBC reports, citing company representatives.
The facility covers 30,000 square metres and is located on the Kilinto substation site in Addis Ababa.
According to BitCluster, the data centre can accommodate more than 34,000 Antminer S21 200 TH/s miners with a total hashrate of 6.8 EH/s, representing 1.2% of the Bitcoin network’s total hashrate.
Power is planned to be sourced from renewable energy, notably the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam hydroelectric project with a capacity of 5.15 GW. Uninterrupted power supply is provided by the infrastructure of the local high-voltage substation.
Transformers are currently being connected in the new data centre.
Earlier in October 2020, BitCluster opened a large data centre at the site of the closed Nornickel plant in Norilsk. The company estimates that its total computational power could reach approximately 1% of the total hashrate of the Bitcoin network.