Bitcoin mining agency CleanSpark has introduced the beginning of building on a web site in Washington, Georgia, set to deal with 16,000 miners, which might carry the corporate’s hash price whole 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 price for the corporate. The enlargement is estimated to price almost $16 million based on 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 accessible as we speak,” states the discharge.
“After we bought the Washington web site in August, we had been assured about our potential to rapidly increase, including this 50MW to the prevailing 36MW of infrastructure,” Zach Bradford, CleanSpark’s CEO commented. “This second part greater than doubles the scale of the prevailing 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 enlargement.”
Scott Garrison, vice chairman of enterprise growth on the agency, highlighted how the positioning “makes use of primarily low-carbon sources of energy, employs latest technology tech, and is among the many most power-efficient and sustainable bitcoin mining operations.”
Regardless of the current wider downturn within the mining business, CleanSpark has seen a outstanding enlargement from simply 2.1 EH/s in January 2022, to six.2 EH/s in December 2022. This enlargement, alongside one other web site buildout in Sandersville, Georgia, is ready to proceed that fast development within the coming yr.