Mason Infrastructure Group Inc. announced Thursday it had broken ground on a new Bitcoin mining facility in Sharon, Pa.
The first 6 Modular Data Centers have been installed, the company said, and are capable of holding and operating up to 3,528 ASIC data miners, handling approximately 12 MW. Officials with the company said the site has a 120MW capacity, which is capable of housing and operating up to 35,280 ASIC miners.
The company said the first stage of the 12 MW is set to turn on in the third quarter of 2023, with the rest of the site’s facilities able to come online incrementally between late 2023 and early 2024. The facility will house both Mawson Self-Mining and Mawson Hosting operations.
“We are delighted to have broken ground on our Sharon, PA facility – and to have taken delivery of the first 6 Modular Data Centers destined for Sharon, capable of delivering 12MW of power to our miners / holding about 12 MW worth of miners,” Liam Wilson, Mawson’s COO, said. “This step forward is further proof of Mawson’s push to deploy infrastructure and energize through 2023 and to achieve our previously stated targets. We look forward to continuing to communicate operational updates throughout 2023.”
The Sharon facility will also participate in Mawson’s market leading Energy Markets Program, which uses distributed energy resource (DER) software from Voltus, Inc., to provide energy to the PJM’s grid operators as a grid balancing resource. The facility will make the most of energy when prices are low and engage in energy demand response programs when demand is high, receiving revenue and reducing overall energy costs, the company said.
The Sharon facility will join a Midland, Penn. facility announced in June 2022. Combined, the sites will have a total capacity of up to 220MW of power, capable of housing and operating up to approximately 64,680 ASIC miners, theoretically capable of producing approximately 7.8 exahashes per second, the company said.