America’s largest Bitcoin mining companies are racing to reinvent themselves as infrastructure providers for artificial intelligence, turning once pure-play crypto operations into hybrid data center ...

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When Tether Holdings chose Uruguay for its Bitcoin (BTC) mining activity, the reason was simple: cheap energy costs. But once a lucrative affair, Bitcoin mining is no longer drawing the same kind of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Becca Bratcher is an author and journalist specializing in crypto. Over the past few years, the United States, specifically Texas, ...

El Salvador mines Bitcoin using volcano power (seriously), and Paraguay runs mining farms on excess hydroelectric capacity that would otherwise go to waste. Crypto mining burns through electricity ...

One afternoon in June 2024, I stood up against the fence of a sprawling industrial facility a few miles outside of Corsicana, Texas. Over a metal gate, I watched a bright yellow excavator claw at the ...