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Ana Paula Pereira11 hours agoCleanSpark’s Bitcoin mining capacity hits 8 EH/s as new facility goes liveThe Bitcoin mining company kicked off the second phase of its mining campus in Georgia, gearing up for the next Bitcoin halving.8835 Total views37 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsJoin us on social networksBitcoin miner CleanSpark has begun the second phase of operations at its mining campus in Washington, a city in the U.S. state of Georgia, reaching 8.0 exahashes per second (EH/s), halfway to its year-end target of 16 EH/s. 


The second phase saw an investment of nearly $55 million in the site, including construction, infrastructure and machines. The facility, bought in August 2022 for $25.1 million, had 15,000 mining machines with a power capacity of 50 megawatts (MW). According to the company, the capital deployed expands its total power capacity to 86 MW.


“Today, it’s 50 megawatts of new power added on to the 36 megawatts we previously had constructed there. So, there’s 86 megawatts, or 12 times the load provided by the city," said Matthew Schultz, CleanSpark’s executive chairman, during an investors" conference on July 13.


According to Schultz, the city of Washington has seen its annual budget almost double year-over-year as a result of the company’s collaboration with city officials and the community. “The city becomes our utility, and rather than compete with ratepayers for power, we agreed to buy power from the city at a cost-plus level," he explained, adding that the town had a budget last year of about $16 million. “Their annual city budget this year is over $30 million."


CleanSpark has pushed an aggressive expansion plan despite the current bear market. Last month, itpurchased Bitcoin mining facilities in Dalton, also in Georgia. The campus will house 6,000 Antminer S19 XPs and S19j Pro+s, which are expected to add about 1 EH/s to its hash rate. “Georgia has been a terrific opportunity for us because it’s predominantly nuclear power and Georgia is a net exporter of power," said the chairman.CleanSpark"s hash rate evolution in 2022. Source: Hashrate Index


The company has also invested over $150 million in building its computer power infrastructure in the past months. According to Schultz, the strategy was initially drafted in November 2021, when a number of Bitcoin mining companies “made billion-dollar orders of mining machines."


“Zach [Bradford], Gary [Vecchiarelli] and myself sat back and kind of realized that with that much new equipment being added to the Bitcoin blockchain, as well as analyzing some future energy models, it was likely that Bitcoin was going to pull back from that $60,000 range," the executive noted during the investors call.


Rather than investing capital in high-value rigs, CleanSpark chose to sell Bitcoin between the $40,000 and $60,000 range and reallocate the funds into more efficient infrastructure.


With the next Bitcoin halving just around the corner, the company updated its strategy once again. “If you’ve looked at our updates, [...] we’ve started to increase the amount of Bitcoin that we hold back because we believe running into this halving event just reaps rewards and pays dividends," said Schultz.


Also hinting at the company’s plans for 2024, CleanSpark CEO Zach Bradford said the company would be looking at mergers and acquisitions (M&A) opportunities for the next cycle. “I really think post-halving is going to have incredible M&A opportunities. [...] You’re going to see whole facilities or maybe peers that just can’t stay operating. [...]. I’d love to come in, buy up a bunch of empty facilities and bring in state-of-the-art miners. That’s what we’re thinking about 2024 is, again, build capital, wait for the opportunity, deploy it when we can create quick returns."


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