Free Electricity For Butte, Montana? Why Not? Massive Solar Project -- May 27, 2021

Link here.

• Basin Creek Solar Project
• solar project
• one of the largest, if not the largest, in the US, if approved
• $250 million
• 300 MW
• $250 / 300 = $800,000 / MW
• Madison River Equity LLC
• parent company manages Atlas Power, a cryptomining outfit
• county planning board to begin discussion, June 17, 2021

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• 1,600 acres (2.5 sections; about the size of a drilling unit in the Bakken)
• could power 40,000 homes
• entire county has about 14,000 homes
• cryptomining would only require 75 MW; the rest would be sold
• Atlas has previously mined bitcoin but is now looking at mining ethereum so it can use GPU processors instead of the power-hot ASIC machines

Nvidia: uses GPU processors
ASIC mining machines: designed to mine only one type of cryptocurrency; link here;