Industrial Bitcoin mining breathes new life into tiny Texan town
Major Bitcoin miners have set up shop in a former aluminium smelting plant in the small Texan town of Rockdale. Two Bitcoin mining giants are duking it out for cheap electricity in the tiny town in Texas.Both Bitdeer, a mining firm that spun out from Chinese giant Bitmain, and Riot Blockchain, one of leading publicly traded Bitcoin mining firms in the United States, are operating data centers hosted at a former aluminium smelting facility in the Texan town of Rockdale.The town’s aluminium smelting plant was previously the world’s largest, until the company that ran it, Alcoa, began winding....
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