Indiana vows outage-free energy for crypto miners, data centers

Arijit Sarkar13 hours agoIndiana vows outage-free energy for crypto miners, data centersIndiana plans to become a hub for the data center and crypto mining industries by promising uninterrupted, low-cost energy.3752 Total views9 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsOwn this piece of crypto historyCollect this article as NFTJoin us on social networksIndiana lawmakers have assured mega-corporations of “ample amounts” of low-cost power and water as they hope to attract and serve data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations in the region.

Large companies like Meta, Amazon, Google and Microsoft, along with the cryptocurrency mining firm AboutBit, have either invested or plan to build their facilities in the state.

While Indiana provides financial incentives to organizations, AboutBit and other cryptocurrency miners are not eligible for these state programs.Data centers operating in Indiana as of June 2024. Source: Indiana Capital ChronicleData centers for financial benefit

In May, Amazon announced plans to invest $11 billion in Indiana, to which Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb said:“[Amazon] wouldn’t have made the commitment without the confidence that we can supply both the power and the water.”

In addition, Commerce Secretary David Rosenberg, head of the Indiana Economic Development Corp., said the state has “ample amounts of both” power and water.

AboutBit had transformed a 50-year-old power station into a sustainable liquid-cooled cryptocurrency mining facility. It currently runs next to the Merom Generating Station in Indiana.

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As of May 28, U.S. Bitcoin (BTC) miners have spent $2.7 billion on electricity in 2024.

“Since the start of 2024, Bitcoin mining in the U.S. has consumed an enormous 20,822.62 GWh of electric power,” said Paul Hoffman, an analyst at Best Brokers. “At the average commercial electricity rate of $0.1281 per kWh as of February, this amounts to an expenditure of $2,667,378,196.47.”

Before the Bitcoin halving in April, mining one BTC required 407,059.01 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, which cost approximately $52,144.26. Since the halving, the electricity needed to mine one BTC has increased to 862,635.55 kWh, which costs around $110,503.61 at average commercial rates.

Hoffman explained: “This amount of energy could charge every electric vehicle in the U.S. 87.52 times or power 1,983,107 households for a year, which is 1.51% of all U.S. households.”

In January, the Bitcoin ESG Forecast revealed that sustainable energy use in Bitcoin mining has increased to a new all-time high of 54.5%, with sustainable mining rising by 3.6% overall during 2023.

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