{"id":83386,"date":"2023-08-21T19:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=83386"},"modified":"2025-09-12T10:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T07:48:47","slug":"genesis-digital-assets-launches-a-green-data-centre-for-bitcoin-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/genesis-digital-assets-launches-a-green-data-centre-for-bitcoin-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Digital Assets launches a &#8216;green&#8217; data centre for Bitcoin mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American mining company Genesis Digital Assets (GDA) <a href=\"https:\/\/genesisdigitalassets.com\/gda-expands-its-bitcoin-mining-capacity-in-nordics-with-new-facility\/\">expanded<\/a> its Bitcoin mining capacity in Sweden with the launch of a new data centre.<\/p>\n<p>The facility is located in the north of the country near a hydroelectric plant in Porjus with a capacity of 417 MW. It is expected that the GDA venture will use clean energy from a local supplier.<\/p>\n<p>Initial capacity at the data centre will be 8 MW. The company plans to upgrade the site in the near term.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe strive for leadership in the Bitcoin mining industry, setting an example for other players, minimising our environmental footprint,\u201d said co-founder and chief executive Abdumalik Mirakhmedov.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As part of its commitments, the company is working with local contractors to organise and manage operations at the new facility.<\/p>\n<p>The facility previously operated as a traditional data centre and is the third mining site opened by GDA in Sweden in the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>Under its management are 19 data centres in North America, Europe and Central Asia with a total capacity of over 400 MW.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in August, GDA <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/genesis-digital-assets-launches-three-new-data-centres-for-bitcoin-mining\">opened three new facilities<\/a> on the east coast of South Carolina, aimed at using energy from renewable sources for mining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis Digital Assets (GDA) expanded its Bitcoin mining capacity in Sweden with the launch of a new data centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83387,"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":[1137,1507],"class_list":["post-83386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-sweden"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"52","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83386","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=83386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83388,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83386\/revisions\/83388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}