Solar-Powered Crypto Farm in Australia to Prove Bitcoin Mining Can Be Green

Bitcoin.com | Sep 18, 2022 at 12:00 AM
  • A crypto mining data center in the state of South Australia will be running mainly on solar-generated electricity, a media report reveals.
  • Australian national broadcaster ABC notes in a report that at a time when the world is trying to reduce energy consumption, the extraction of the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization uses more power than medium-sized nations such as Argentina.
  • The new crypto farm can potentially mint around 100 BTC annually, depending on the available power.