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Merkle Standard: Washington

Year Built: 2023

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Merkle Standard's Washington cryptocurrency mining facility is situated at the former Ponderay Newsprint Mill in Pend Oreille County near Usk.

The facility features fully developed infrastructure with 700,000 square feet of on-site real estate. The site currently hosts a mix of air-cooled and liquid-cooled (hydro) miners. Merkle Standard plans to deploy an initial 72 MW GPU cluster at its liquid-cooled Washington data center.

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Ant Boxes (with SR-20 in the background) outside the Merkle Standard cryptocurrency mining facility in Usk, Washington

Ant Boxes outside the Merkle Standard cryptocurrency mining facility in Usk, Washisgton

Source: Erick Doxey for InvestigateWest

Ant Boxes (with SR-20 in the background) outside the Merkle Standard cryptocurrency mining facility in Usk, Washington

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Merkle Standard is a vertically-integrated self-mining platform digital asset mining company with a goal to have a negative carbon footprint. The company currently operates in North America.

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