Updates
February 15, 2022: COP providing natural gas for ND bit-miner. Link here.
January 28, 2022: is crypto mining driving up power costs for US consumers? Link to Tsvetana Paraskova. We may need to re-visit this story in 2025.
Original Post
- Atlas Power Data Center to partner with FX Solutions Inc
- $1.9 billion -- billion -- cryptocurrency factory
- construction has already begun west of Williston
- will be one of the world's largest data centers
- ND has two things these folks need:
- redundant power supply; and,
- speed to market
- first phase
- eight buildings
- each building: 15 megawatts
- 120 megawatts total
- second phase:
- 20-megawatt buildings
- 6 buildings
- total with first and second phases: 240 megawatts
- milestones
- goal: 240 MW by 4Q22
- then: 500 MW by 2Q23
- finally: 700 MW 4Q23
- after 700 MW, company may come back to Mountrail Williams and Basin Electric to ask for more energy, depending on demand for their services
- second such facility for Atlas Power
- first was in Butte, MT
- goal: to create the world's largest cryptocurrency company with a carbon-neutral footprint
- for perspective: the new airport -- $300 million
- the $2.8 billion Cerilon plant in Trenton, just a few miles southwest of Williston
- the gas-to-liquid plant, see this post;
Background:
- cryptocurrency data centers are usually in the range of one to five MW facilities; link here;
- RWB: consulting engineers designing cryptocurrency facilities from 1MW to 700 MW in size; link here;
- two of the biggest bitcoin mining companies in Rockdale, TX; link here.
- Bitdeer
- Riot Blockchain: Whinstone mine --
- biggest in North America
- goal: 750 MW
- to put that in perspective, downtown Dallas uses just 200 MW
- Riot Whinstone: electricity demand similar to downtown Dallas + Manhattan
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