{"id":30379,"date":"2020-10-20T16:08:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T13:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30379"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T19:00:01","slug":"bitfury-selects-site-for-ukrainian-data-center-at-a-nuclear-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitfury-selects-site-for-ukrainian-data-center-at-a-nuclear-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitfury selects site for Ukrainian data center at a nuclear power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">A data center from Bitfury Group and Energoatom, using the capacity of Ukraine&#8217;s nuclear power plant, will be located in Rivne Oblast, according to the <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.rv.gov.ua\/news\/poryad-iz-raes-zbuduyut-pershij-data-centr-v-zahidnij-ukrayini\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">site<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> of the regional administration.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The data center will be built in the city of Varash, where the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant is located. Its capacity will be 250 MW, with potential to be expanded to 500 MW.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to the press service, work on the project has been under way for about a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to representatives of Ukraine&#8217;s Ministry of Digital Transformation, a network of data centers powered by nuclear power plants will \\&#8221;create the necessary conditions for implementing the state&#8217;s policy in the field of digitalization\\&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">ForkLog has sought additional comment from Energoatom and Bitfury representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">In May, the Ministry of Energy tasked Energoatom with studying the possibilities of cryptocurrency mining at Ukraine&#8217;s NPPs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">A subsidiary of Bitfury Holding BV and Energoatom <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitfury-signs-deal-to-build-mining-centre-in-ukraine\">signed<\/a> a memorandum on the construction of data centers on the territory of the NPPs in October.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The agreement contemplates creating data centers with total energy consumption that could reach 2 GW.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\\n<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <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>A data center from Bitfury Group and Energoatom, using the capacity of Ukraine&#8217;s nuclear power plant, will be built in Rivne Oblast, according to the local administration&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"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":[88,1137,16],"class_list":["post-30379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitfury","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"45","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30379","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=30379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30380,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30379\/revisions\/30380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}