April 25, 2024

Pennsylvania to Open America's First Atomic-Powered Bitcoin Mining Center

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Pennsylvania to Open America's First Atomic-Powered Bitcoin Mining Center

Cumulus Data, a subsidiaryindependent power producer Talen Energy has completed construction of the first Cumulus Susquehanna data center in the United States with a promise of zero carbon emissions.

New data center capacitywill be more than 40 MW, which is achieved through direct connection to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in northeastern Pennsylvania. It is expected that in addition to server equipment for cloud computing, equipment for bitcoin mining will be located on the territory of the data center.

The Cumulus Susquehanna data center became the first in the futurenetwork of 18 integrated data centers of Cumulus Data with a planned total capacity of more than 470 MW. The first mining complex in the United States will be deployed on their basis.
Nautilus Cryptomine, powered solely by nuclear energy and mining “carbon-free crypto assets.”

In 2021, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced that the first bitcoins were mined at a state-owned mining farm powered by geothermal sources.