{"id":35434,"date":"2021-01-27T14:04:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T12:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35434"},"modified":"2025-08-29T01:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:18:27","slug":"bitcoin-mining-centre-at-a-ukrainian-npp-to-cost-9-million-hryvnias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bitcoin-mining-centre-at-a-ukrainian-npp-to-cost-9-million-hryvnias\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin-mining centre at a Ukrainian NPP to cost 9 million hryvnias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kyiv Energy Construction Company&#8221; won the tender to build a data centre at the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant for 8.92 million hryvnias. The <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.e-tender.ua\/tender\/budivelni-roboti\/UA-2020-12-23-012811-c-dstu-b-d-1-1-1-2013-proyektni-roboty-po-obyektu-budivnycztvo-centru-obrobky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> public procurement site ProZorro.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The sole bidder, &#8220;Ukrenergbudproekt,&#8221; offered to carry out the works for 5,600 hryvnias more.<\/p>\n<p>In the near term, NAEC Energoatom will sign a contract with the tender winner.<\/p>\n<p>In the first phase, the contractor must develop the construction documentation for the data centre, where it is planned to house &#8220;state registries, electronic archives and computing power&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the project will come from the sale of electricity from the NPP under the 2021 investment programme.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is planned to be completed by 31 August 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Tender documentation on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/492303565\/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F-%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F#from_embed\">Tender documentation<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View ForkLog's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/456422024\/ForkLog#from_embed\">ForkLog<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_80274\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Tender documentation\" src=\"https:\/\/ru.scribd.com\/embeds\/492303565\/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-3esulYPreCiFXod0t6qN\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7068965517241379\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to an agreement between Energoatom and the Bitfury Holding BV subsidiary, the capacity of the new data centre will be 250 MW with the possibility of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitfury-selects-site-for-ukrainian-data-center-at-a-nuclear-power-plant\">expansion to 500 MW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May 2020, the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine instructed Energoatom to study the possibilities of mining cryptocurrencies at local NPPs.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry later explained that mining would help maintain guaranteed loads at the NPPs and attract additional funds.<\/p>\n<p>In October Bitfury Holding BV and Energoatom signed a memorandum on building data centres on Ukrainian NPPs with <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitfury-signs-deal-to-build-mining-centre-in-ukraine\">total energy consumption of up to 2 GW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kyiv Energy Construction Company&#8221; won the tender to build a data centre at the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant for 8.92 million hryvnias. 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