{"id":64748,"date":"2022-07-22T11:33:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=64748"},"modified":"2025-09-06T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T13:07:15","slug":"compass-mining-to-install-25000-bitcoin-miners-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/compass-mining-to-install-25000-bitcoin-miners-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Compass Mining to install 25,000 Bitcoin miners in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The supplier of equipment and services for Bitcoin mining, Compass Mining, has reached an agreement with Compute North to provide 75 MW of capacity at the blockchain hosting provider&#8217;s data center.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Compass Mining Announces 75MW Site Expansion With Compute North<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r2Y1BwYCbt\">https:\/\/t.co\/r2Y1BwYCbt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fouv4Oex0R\">pic.twitter.com\/fouv4Oex0R<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Compass Mining \ud83e\udded (@compass_mining) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/compass_mining\/status\/1549806359247572997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Compass plans to deploy 25,000 ASIC miners at a facility in Granbury, Texas. Installation will begin in August and will take several months. The equipment includes latest-generation devices such as the Antminer S19 XP, Antminer S19j Pro, and Whatsminer M30S++.<\/p>\n<p>Compute North&#8217;s data center is powered by the Wolf Hollow natural-gas-fired combined-cycle power plant with a capacity of 1.1 GW. The hosting provider has a 300 MW agreement, with the possibility to increase to 600 MW.<\/p>\n<p>Compute North uses containerized solutions from RK Mission Critical of Colorado to house the miners. Each container holds about 560 devices, with 2 MW of available power per container.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/Kt30GwZkeHT3N9Dt_qkYY_BD6bVfYTh-viT2CuNKw8XQJJ_pw0qt9EubdwtKnqYOGitcc5zXCJ1Zvnbe7VR75Z-WyC_UsLUIG6uRH9-gHhewkOSSsKGME3unYYKZrN0KEZSCbUczltLlt8l1Nb0v9Xk\" alt=\"Compass Mining \u0443\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0442 25 000 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d-\u043c\u0430\u0439\u043d\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0432 \u0432 \u0422\u0435\u0445\u0430\u0441\u0435\"\/><figcaption>Compute North data center in Texas. Data: Compass Mining.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The provider collaborates with many public mining companies, including <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/marathon-signs-hosting-agreements-for-about-254-mw-of-mining-capacity\">Marathon Digital Holdings<\/a>. Compass&#8217;s equipment also operates at the Compute North facility in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>In June, hosting provider Dynamics Mining <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-hosting-provider-terminates-agreement-with-compass-mining\">terminated the agreement<\/a> to host miners with Compass, citing unpaid invoices.<\/p>\n<p>In late June the mining company <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/compass-mining-ceo-and-cfo-resign\">fired<\/a> CEO Witt Gibbs and CFO Jodi Fischer.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Compass&#8217;s new management <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/compass-mining-to-cut-15-of-workforce-and-reduce-executive-pay\">announced the layoff of 15% of staff<\/a> and cost reductions.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The equipment supplier and services provider Compass Mining has reached an agreement with Compute North to provide 75 MW of capacity at the data center of the blockchain hosting provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64749,"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":[2237,1137],"class_list":["post-64748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-compass","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64748","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=64748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64750,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64748\/revisions\/64750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}