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Hut 8 to expand in West Texas

Cryptomining company Hut 8 has revealed that it will beexpanding its operations in Texas and has signed a power purchase agreement to procure 205MW of energy for a new data center to be built on an undisclosed greenfield site in West Texas.Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8, said: “This transaction ex...

July 11, 2024

Texas

DataNovaX pitches Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities

DataNovaX, a new build-to-suit (BTS) data center provider, this week announced it is pitching Northern Texas as a potential hub for new facilities and is accepting clients at Pioneer Park in Wichita Falls.Ahmed Abdelghani, DataNovaX CEO, said: "This area offers a wealth of resources and busine...

June 04, 2024

Texas

Soluna secures $30 million in funding for data center expansion

Data center operator Soluna has secured $30 million in funding from Spring Lane Capital to expand its data center in Texas. Soluna said the financing will accommodate approximately 12,700 Bitcoin mining rigs, each with a power consumption of around 3.5kW, totaling 48MW. Soluna has an existing ...

May 24, 2024

Soluna

Ericsson to invest $50 million for data center expansion

Ericsson this week revealed it will invest an additional $50 million to expand its four-year-old 5G Smart Factory in Lewisville, Texas, an investment which "will further accelerate local production to address the demand for 5G infrastructure made in the USA, compliant with the Build America B...

May 21, 2024

Texas

Samsung plans investment in semiconductor cluster

Samsung Electronics has announced it will invest $40 billion to build a semiconductor cluster across a number of locations in Texas with a $6.4bn in direct funding under the US Chips and Science Act to support the development. The Taylor fabs are expected to be up and running by 2026 and Samsu...

April 15, 2024

Texas

Iris Energy and Poolside sign new partnership

Iris Energy and AI startup Poolside have gotten into an agreement to give the latter cloud access to Nvidia GPUs. According to Iris Energy, the initial contract is three months, with a potential three month extension. Daniel Roberts, co-Founder and co-CEO of Iris Energy, said: “We are pleased ...

February 08, 2024

Texas

Data Clean Corp acquires data center cleaning business Sealco

Data Clean Corporation has acquired Texas-based critical environment cleaning company Sealco LLC, marking its second acquisition since it was bought by Angeles Equity Partners in November 2022. Frank Spelman, managing director at Angeles Equity Partners said, “Sealco is arguably one of the mos...

November 17, 2023

Texas

Smith County data center to get $2million renovation

Smith County, Texas is giving its data center at 200 E. Ferguson Street, Texas, the Smith County Annex a $2 million upgrade. This upgrade scheduled to begin on November 1, 2023, is expected to be completed by December 20, 2024.The mission for this upgrade is focused on enhancing the IT infras...

October 09, 2023

Texas

Texas-based Valero payments data center for sale

Energy company Valero's office and data center space is up for sale in Texas. Williams & Co Real Estate has the Valero Credit Card Ops Center at 7201 Canyon Drive in Amarillo listed for sale with a Triple Net Lease (NNN) tenant. The price listed is $6,295,000. The 2003-built, 34,585-square...

August 03, 2023

Texas

Ericsson sets up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy

Ericsson has announced that it has set up a 5G site in Texas powered by solar energy. Located in Plano, Texas, the site can be fully operated by solar energy and supported by integrated Lithium-ion batteries, for up to 24 hours. The Plano site includes Ericsson's Massive MIMO radio configurati...

July 14, 2023

Texas

Soluna's Project Dorothy Data Center Receives Approval to Go Live from ERCOT

The manufacturer of green data centers for Bitcoin mining and other intensive computing, Soluna Computing, Inc., announced yesterday that it had received final authorization from ERCOT for powering Project Dorothy, its flagship data center in Texas, with immediate effect. The last legal requir...

April 25, 2023

Texas

SBI Crypto sues Riot-owned data center

SBI Crypto Co. is reportedly pursuing litigation against the Riot Blockchain-owned-Whinstone US data center based in Rockdale, Texas. The bitcoin mining company outlined in its lawsuit, filed April 6th, that the data center breached its Hosting Service Agreement, alongside other charges includ...

April 12, 2023

Riot Platforms

TexAmericas Center announces initiative to develop green data center park

TexAmericas Center has announced its plan to develop green energy data centers, which it has said will be suitable for major companies eyeing expansion. The property pegged for this development has over 400 acres, which reports outline would be suitable for hyperscale, corporate, retail and s...

March 08, 2023

Texas

Citigroup Is Equipping Two Of Its Data Centers in Texas With Battery Rooms

CitiGroup is initiating two data center expansion projects in the Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth regions of Texas. Two applications for 'Battery Room Buildouts' have been submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR). Its Georgetown Data Center is located at 201 Blue Ridge...

February 06, 2023

Texas

Cryptomining begins at Odessa Data Center

Cipher Mining, Inc., a U.S.-based bitcoin mining company, has begun bitcoin mining operations at its Odessa data center in Texas."We are delighted to announce that our Odessa data center has begun bitcoin mining operations just 10 months after we broke ground at the site," said Tyler Page, CEO...

December 02, 2022

Texas

Genesis Digital Assets commences work on new 40MW mining data center

Genesis Digital Assets, has broken ground on a new data center in Glasscock county Texas. Comprising four buildings when complete, the new facility is expected to be finished and fully operational by December this year. According to the company, the facility will utilize its proprietary techno...

October 21, 2022

Texas

Arsenal Digital Holdings Acquires Data Center in Texas

Arsenal Digital Holdings has announced that it has an agreement in place to acquire a data center campus in Texas. The crypto mining holding firm didn’t reveal the terms of the deal nor the location of the site. However, it noted that the property sits on a 50-acre site. It also said the prope...

October 03, 2022

Texas

Land meant for data center infrastructure in Fort Worth rezoned

According to reports, a parcel of land in Fort Worth, Texas, has been rezoned for residential and light industrial developments. Previously, the 361 acres of land was set aside for digital infrastructure and data center development, however this was never capitalized on. Specifically, the land...

August 18, 2022

Texas

Riot Blockchain generated more money from energy credits than mining cryptocurrency

Riot Blockchain, one of the world’s largest bitcoin miners, has announced that it recently generated more money from energy credits allocated to the company for powering down than from actually mining cryptocurrency. During July, the company shut down its bitcoin mining rigs at its Texas faci...

August 16, 2022

Riot Platforms

ERCOT requests Bitcoin miners switch off to reduce energy consumption in extreme heatwave

Texas is currently experiencing record temperatures, with the state hitting triple figures last week. Waco, for example, reached 108F, beating the 104F high set a century ago back in 1917. Last month, for instance, over a third of those in the US were urged to stay inside. This news comes as g...

July 15, 2022

Texas

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