Per a recent news release from Northern Bitcoin, the site will not just be the biggest Bitcoin facility in the world, but will also double as the largest data center in all of North America. The construction project will be done in three phases with the first one scheduled for completion sometime in the first quarter of 2020. By then, the facility will have achieved the number one spot as the largest in the world, with more than 300 megawatts. The release also notes that construction will continue until the end of 2020, with the aim of having a one-gigawatt total capacity.
The mining facility will occupy 100 acres – equal to about 57 standard soccer fields) and is situated in Texas, along with Bitmain’s earlier announced mining farm, also planned to be the world’s largest.