Potentially the world’s biggest bitcoin mine is said to have signed up two top corporate customers, SBI Holdings and GMO.
The Japanese corporate giants will be renting mining capacity at the facility in Rockdale, Texas, recently put into construction by Whinstone Inc., according to Bloomberg sources. The firms are to begin mining “within coming months,” the report says, adding that the firms involved would not comment when asked.
As reported in November, when the facility gets up and running it will likely be the biggest bitcoin mine in the world, starting at 300 megawatts and expanding to 1 gigawatt by the end of 2020.
That puts the rival mine being built by Bitmain – also in Rockdale and touted as the biggest in the world – in the shade. That’s planned to start at a capacity of 25-50 MW and possibly expand to 300 MW.
Internet giant GMO was also said to have been involved in setting up the Rockdale facility, as per an earlier report. In November, Whinstone estimated the data centre will cost $150 million to build and fit-out. The initial 300 MW of power was expected to come online in the first quarter, with 1 GW planned to be achieved late in the year.
Soon after Whinstone broke ground on its Texas project the company was acquired by Germany-based Northern Bitcoin, which already runs a bitcoin mine in Norway that harnesses renewable power. Similarly, Texas may have been chosen as the site for this major venture in part due to its availability of cheap wind power, according to Bloomberg.
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