{"id":44518,"date":"2021-06-17T13:53:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T10:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=44518"},"modified":"2025-08-31T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:18:49","slug":"kazakhstan-to-host-a-16-mw-mining-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kazakhstan-to-host-a-16-mw-mining-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan to host a 16 MW mining centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American mining firm Wattum Management, in partnership with Kazakhstan&#8217;s Enegix, <a href=\"https:\/\/wattummanagement.com\/blog\/wattum-and-enegix-announce-partnership-for-ongoing-facility-expansion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will build<\/a> a data centre with a capacity of 16 MW and a price tag of $2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is scheduled for July 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The parties are also negotiating financing and construction of an additional facility with a capacity of 50 MW. Its estimated cost is $8 million.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will open up the US market to Enegix.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September 2020, Enegix opened a data centre in Kazakhstan with a capacity of 180 MW. According to company representatives, the facility houses <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kazakhstan-to-open-one-of-the-worlds-largest-mining-data-centres\">50,000 Bitcoin miners<\/a>, which account for more than 2% of the world&#8217;s hashrate.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s Telegram news: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York-based mining firm Wattum Inc., in partnership with Kazakhstan&#8217;s Enegix, will build a data centre with a capacity of 16 MW and a price tag of $2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,153],"class_list":["post-44518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-kazakhstan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44518","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=44518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44520,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44518\/revisions\/44520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}