{"id":63409,"date":"2022-06-24T11:20:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T08:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=63409"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T05:51:41","slug":"us-opens-solar-powered-bitcoin-mining-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/us-opens-solar-powered-bitcoin-mining-center\/","title":{"rendered":"US opens solar-powered Bitcoin mining center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mining company Aspen Creek Digital Corporation (ACDC) opened a 6 MW data center in Colorado. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/153893\/bitcoin-miner-aspen-creek-digital-opens-6-megawatt-facility-in-colorado\">reports<\/a> The Block.<\/p>\n<p>Equipment is powered by a 10 MW solar power plant.<\/p>\n<p>The first hosting client of the facility was Galaxy Digital.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, ACDC plans to open two more data centers in Texas \u2014 30 MW and 150 MW. The first of them will be launched this summer and will accommodate 10,000 ASIC miners.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Recent market volatility has underscored the importance of our core strategy: power control as the main contribution to Bitcoin mining,&#8221; said Alexandra DaCosta, CEO of ACDC.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to her, this approach will help isolate mining operations from fluctuations in the electricity market.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Wyoming-based utility Black Hills Energy signed <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-utility-signs-first-blockchain-interruptible-tariff-deal-for-miners\">the first deal under a special tariff for miners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mining company Aspen Creek Digital Corporation opened a 6 MW data center in Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63410,"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":[1137,770,2204,26],"class_list":["post-63409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-galaxy-digital","tag-solar-energy","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"42","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63409","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=63409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63411,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63409\/revisions\/63411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}