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 may carry the corporate’s hash price whole 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 price for the corporate. The enlargement is estimated to value 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 latest and most power-efficient fashions of bitcoin mining machines accessible at present,” states the discharge.
“After 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 scale of the present operation. We’re trying ahead to increasing our relationship with the Washington Metropolis neighborhood and to have the ability to assist the development jobs that can include this enlargement.”
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 current wider downturn within the mining trade, 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 about to proceed that fast progress within the coming yr.