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AUSTIN New data from the Texas Workforce Commission indicate that upstream oil and natural gas employment climbed by 1,700 in April ... “Support Activities for Mining,” which is mostly oil ...

Riot is a Texas based bitcoin mining company that was recently targeted ... More Paraguay, in Foz do Iguaçu, 1700 km south from Brasilia, on May 21, 2008. With 14,000 MW installed, with 20 ...

Amid the loud fans and a towering wall of supercomputers, a digital gold rush is taking place in Texas. The Lone Star State has emerged as the bitcoin mining capital of the United States because ...

told the Texas Observer that approximately 40 mines are operating in the state in 2025, together consuming about 3,200 MWs, enough to power 800,000 homes. But the biggest users are just 15 larger ...

“Texas is home to the largest Bitcoin mining sites in North America, and fast achieving status as the undisputed Bitcoin mining capital of the world,” Texas Blockchain Council President Lee ...

Chinese mining pool Poolin was planning a 600 MW site in West Texas in partnership with mining rig maker Bitmain. The first phase of the site with a power capacity of 100 MW has been energized ...

You are now number one! It’s official. Texas is the bitcoin mining capital not only of the United States, but also of the entire world. About half of all bitcoin mining in the U.S. is Texas ...

DALLAS – Texas is among the most popular destinations in the U.S. for bitcoin mining. However, earlier this June, the state’s grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT ...

Other groups are also working to raise awareness of the mining consequences. "Regular Texans are not gambling in and benefitting from bitcoin cryptocurrencies," said Jackie Sawicky with the Texas ...

The mine owned and operated by Marathon Digital is part of a growing tide of cryptocurrency mining facilities opening across the country, but especially in Texas, where taxes are low, land is ...

A new research report by the Digital Assets Research Institute (DARI) revealed how Bitcoin mining has impacted the Texas electrical grid and saved the state as much as $18 billion by eliminating ...