CleanSpark Breaks Ground On 50 Megawatt Bitcoin Mining Expansion

Bitcoin mining agency CleanSpark has introduced the beginning of development on a web site 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 location, which CleanSpark introduced the acquisition of in 2022, would contribute to a further 2.2 EH/s of hash fee for the corporate. The growth is estimated to price almost $16 million in keeping with the press launch despatched to Bitcoin Journal.

“The mining machine fleet on the new part will include Antminer S19j Professional and Antminer S19 XP fashions, the latest and most power-efficient fashions of bitcoin mining machines obtainable right this moment,” states the discharge.

“Once we bought the Washington web site in August, we had been assured about our capability to rapidly 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 trying ahead to increasing our relationship with the Washington Metropolis group and to have the ability to assist the development jobs that may include this growth.”

Scott Garrison, vice chairman of enterprise growth on the agency, highlighted how the location “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 trade, CleanSpark has seen a outstanding growth from simply 2.1 EH/s in January 2022, to six.2 EH/s in December 2022. This growth, alongside one other web site buildout in Sandersville, Georgia, is ready to proceed that speedy progress within the coming yr.