Brazil explores using surplus solar power for Bitcoin mining, turning renewable energy waste into economic opportunity.

Engie is considering adding battery storage or bitcoin mining data centers to its 895-MW Assu Sol solar plant in Brazil.

The “duck curve” – a challenge specific to the renewable energy landscape – has found an unexpected solution in Bitcoin mining. This curve reflects the conflict between peak demand periods and peak ...

There are two energy revolutions currently underway that complement one another: the revolution in human energy use, as greener or more sustainable options become a priority in the light of climate ...

Energy security has become a top priority for South Africa’s mining industry. Key discussions at this year’s Mining Indaba ...

South Australia’s first solar-powered cryptocurrency-mining facility, which uses renewable energy sourced from a solar project, is now up and running in the town of Whyalla, on the east coast of the ...

Tesla is going to build a solar and Megapack farm for energy storage that is going to power a new Bitcoin mining facility in partnership with both Blockstream and Jack Dorsey’s Blocks (formerly Square ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. McFadden and his firm have not accomplished this alone. In 2016, a coalition of ...

Scott Buckley grew up in West Virginia thanks to choices his family made generations before him. "My family moved to find employment," he told Newsweek. "And that employment was in the mines in West ...

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As Bitcoin transforms the incentives around energy use, will solar power become the future of mining? There are two energy revolutions currently underway that complement one another: the revolution in ...