Bitcoin mining agency CleanSpark has introduced the beginning of development on a website in Washington, Georgia, set to accommodate 16,000 miners, which might convey the corporate’s hash fee complete to as excessive as 8.7 EH/s.
The positioning, which CleanSpark introduced the acquisition of in 2022, would contribute to an extra 2.2 EH/s of hash fee for the corporate. The enlargement is estimated to price practically $16 million in response to the press launch despatched to Bitcoin Journal.
“The mining machine fleet on the new part will encompass Antminer S19j Professional and Antminer S19 XP fashions, the most recent and most power-efficient fashions of bitcoin mining machines out there at the moment,” states the discharge.
“After we bought the Washington website in August, we had been assured about our skill to shortly develop, including this 50MW to the present 36MW of infrastructure,” Zach Bradford, CleanSpark’s CEO commented. “This second part greater than doubles the dimensions of the present operation. We’re wanting ahead to increasing our relationship with the Washington Metropolis neighborhood and to have the ability to help the development jobs that may include this enlargement.”
Scott Garrison, vp of enterprise improvement on the agency, highlighted how the positioning “makes use of primarily low-carbon sources of energy, employs latest era tech, and is among the many most power-efficient and sustainable bitcoin mining operations.”
Regardless of the latest wider downturn within the mining business, CleanSpark has seen a exceptional enlargement from simply 2.1 EH/s in January 2022, to six.2 EH/s in December 2022. This enlargement, alongside one other website buildout in Sandersville, Georgia, is ready to proceed that speedy progress within the coming yr.
