Cipher Enters Us Wholesale Power Market With Ohio Data Center...
The site acquisition gives Bitcoin miner Cipher a foothold in the largest US wholesale power market as miners broaden their infrastructure strategies.
Cipher Mining has acquired a 200-megawatt power site in Ohio called “Ulysses,” marking its first expansion outside of Texas and entry into the PJM wholesale electricity market, the largest power market in the United States.
According to Tuesday’s announcement, the 195-acre site has secured power capacity from AEP Ohio, with all required utility agreements in place, and is expected to be energized in the fourth quarter of 2027.
Cipher said the facility is suitable for high-performance computing and data center use in addition to Bitcoin (BTC) mining. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The move aims to meet growing demand from hyperscalers, large cloud computing companies such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, for data centers. “Hyperscalers are driving unprecedented demand for large-scale sites,” said Cipher CEO Tyler Page, adding that the company's new site will give it additional capacity to expand its high-performance computing (HPC) hosting business.
The deal follows a broader push by publicly listed Bitcoin miners into power, data center and manufacturing infrastructure beyond traditional mining.
Hut 8, for instance, recently signed a 15-year lease worth about $7 billion to supply 245 megawatts of AI data center capacity at its River Bend campus in Louisiana, with infrastructure provider Fluidstack as the tenant and Google backing lease payments.
A few days later, Bitdeer leased about 188,000 square feet at a logistics facility in Sparks, Nevada, to expand its US manufacturing footprint, according to The Miner Mag.
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The Bitcoin mining hash price, a key measure of miner revenue per unit of computing power, has been below $40 since mid-November, a level many operators view as breakeven. The slump has forced mining companies to reassess their operating models as margins across the sector remain under pressure.
Source: CoinTelegraph
