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Bitcoin mining company Terawulf has announced the full deployment of its 50-megawatt (MW) stake in the nuclear-powered Nautilus Cryptomine facility. The behind-the-meter bitcoin mining facility is powered by 100% nuclear power and benefits from a fixed power cost of $0.02 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), according to the company.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Terawulf Fires up 50 MW Zero-Carbon Bitcoin Mining; Aims to Reach 5.5 EH\/s of Capacity by Q2 2023<\/h2>\n

Just over 45 days ago, the bitcoin mining firm Terawulf announced<\/a> it had energized the Nautilus Cryptomine facility, a carbon-free data center with 24\/7 baseload power stemming from the Susquehanna nuclear generation station in Pennsylvania. On April 20, 2023, the company revealed it has successfully deployed 50 MW or 1.9 exahash per second (EH\/s) of hashrate. Terawulf is collaborating with Cumulus Coin, LLC, as the Nautilus Cryptomine is referred to as a \u201cjoint venture\u201d between the two companies.<\/p>\n

Terawulf<\/a> has the option to add another 50 MW, and it plans to do so in \u201cfuture phases,\u201d the firm\u2019s press statement explains. The company currently has 4 EH\/s of hashpower with its 34,500 bitcoin mining devices. Eighteen thousand five hundred machines are located at the firm\u2019s site in Lake Mariner, New York, and 16,000 application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) miners reside at the Nautilus facility. Besides the nuclear power from the Pennsylvania facility, Terawulf details that its bitcoin mining production also leverages hydro and solar at its other locations.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team has been working swiftly and diligently to achieve our stated goal of reaching 5.5 EH\/s of operational mining capacity in Q2 2023,\u201d Paul Prager, the chairman and CEO of Terawulf stated on Thursday. \u201cDeploying 50 MW of mining capacity at the Nautilus facility is an important milestone for the Company. Not only does it represent the first nuclear-powered bitcoin mining facility in the U.S., but Terawulf now has the opportunity to realize the economic advantage of 50 MW of zero-carbon mining at what is arguably the lowest contracted power cost in the sector \u2013 just $0.02\/kWh for a term of five years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Terawulf energizing its 50-megawatt Nautilus stake comes at a time when bitcoin prices have dropped below the $29K per unit zone, down 5.7% over the last seven days. The drop has made it so BTC<\/a>\u2019s average mining costs are higher than the current spot market value, according to macromicro.me statistics<\/a>. BTC<\/a> miners are also contending with the network difficulty ramping up to 48.71 trillion<\/a> on April 20 at block height 786,240. In less than two months, the network\u2019s difficulty has risen more than 22% higher, putting yet another strain on mining operations.<\/p>\n

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What do you think about the potential advantages of nuclear-powered bitcoin mining? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.

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