The City Of Abilene And Taylor County To Build $2.4 Billion Data Center, Will...
The renewable energy powered, large-scale data center campus will host bitcoin mining.Today, Texas’s City of Abilene and Taylor County announced a large-scale partnership with Houston-based infrastructure company, Lancium, to build a $2.4 billion data center campus, per a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.The data center campus, which will be powered by renewable energy, will host bitcoin mining and other energy-intensive applications. This project will begin at 200 megawatts of power, but has an expansion capacity of over 1 gigawatt.“We are very proud to be part of the community and....
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