{"id":75153,"date":"2023-03-07T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T10:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75153"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:03:25","slug":"terawulf-launches-bitcoin-mining-powered-by-nuclear-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/terawulf-launches-bitcoin-mining-powered-by-nuclear-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"TeraWulf Launches Bitcoin Mining Powered by Nuclear Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American mining company TeraWulf has tapped 50 MW of capacity from the Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania to mine Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">.<a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeraWulfInc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">@TeraWulfInc<\/a>&#8216;s Innovative Nuclear-Powered <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">#Bitcoin<\/a> Mining Facility Hits Major Milestone, Bringing Online Nearly 8,000 Miners with 50 MW and 1.9 EH\/s Capacity Expected by May. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/40vBQHppRE\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/40vBQHppRE<\/a> <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/E1wHSJa4mC\\\">pic.twitter.com\/E1wHSJa4mC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blockchain Daily (@blckchaindaily) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blckchaindaily\/status\/1632815439590948865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">March 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cumulus-data-completes-first-nuclear-powered-bitcoin-mining-centre-at-pennsylvanias-susquehanna-nuclear-power-plant\">joint venture with Cumulus Coin<\/a> Nautilus facility, the company connected about 8,000 miners to the network with a total hashrate of around 1 EH\/s. The company plans to deploy a similar number of devices by May 2023.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cThe company benefits from what may be the cheapest electricity in the sector \u2014 just $0.02 per kWh for five years,\u201d noted Paul Prager, CEO of TeraWulf.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After using the contracted 50 MW, the company can deploy a further equivalent amount of power for mining.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time the firm expanded its Lake Mariner data centre in New York. After commissioning the second building, the site&#8217;s operating capacity rose from 60 MW to 110 MW.<\/p>\n<p>TeraWulf expects that by the start of the second quarter the number of active ASIC miners will reach 50,000 with a total hashrate of 5.5 EH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-miner-terawulf-raises-32-million-for-debt-restructuring\">raised $32 million<\/a> through a stock offering. The funds were used to restructure debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American mining company TeraWulf tapped 50 MW of capacity from the Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania to mine Bitcoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137],"class_list":["post-75153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75155,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75153\/revisions\/75155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}