{"id":30161,"date":"2020-10-15T18:14:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30161"},"modified":"2025-08-27T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:52:08","slug":"bitcluster-opens-mining-centre-on-nornickel-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcluster-opens-mining-centre-on-nornickel-site\/","title":{"rendered":"BitCluster opens mining centre on NorNickel site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian industrial mining operator, BitCluster, has opened a large data centre on the site of the closed NorNickel plant in Norilsk. <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are happy to inform you that data center <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BitCluster?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BitCluster<\/a> Nord is open \ud83e\udd73<br \/>\nThe first batch of 150 machines of Antminers S19 has already been sent to the facility and soon the mining equipment will be installed on the shelves. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mining?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mining<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T7bRUoAusq\">pic.twitter.com\/T7bRUoAusq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BitCluster (@bit_cluster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bit_cluster\/status\/1316402070363217922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The data centre will operate as a &#8216;mining hotel&#8217;. Users will be able to rent equipment for mining cryptocurrencies, paying additionally for electricity. For the supply of power, BitCluster has signed a direct contract with the Norilsk-Taymyr Energy Company.<\/p>\n<p>The first client of the data centre will be a Chinese firm, the name of which is not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>BitCluster has already received the first 150 Antminer S19 ASIC miners and will deploy them in the near future. Engineers have designed a canopy with a warm-air supply to prevent snow ingress and protect the equipment from overcooling.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of the data centre&#8217;s power capacity is 11.2 MW. Next year, the target is to increase to 31 MW.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in April, NorNickel president Vladimir Potanin backed the Digital Financial Assets law, which will come into force on 1 January 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The plans to issue metal-backed tokens were first announced by the head of NorNickel in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian industrial mining operator BitCluster opened a large data centre on the site of the closed NorNickel plant in Norilsk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1977,1137],"class_list":["post-30161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcluster","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30163,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30161\/revisions\/30163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}