A $251 million cryptocurrency mining farm is going to be built in Montana. Power Block Coin’s proposal to build a campus of high-powered data centres outside of Butte, Montana, was given the green light on Wednesday. The Butte-Silver Bow Council of Commissioners voted unanimously (9-0) to allow the company to go forward with the plan. A cryptocurrency mining farm in Iceland. The picture shows mainly Zeus scrypt miners. By Marco Krohn (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsPower Block Coin, a subsidiary of Blue Castle Holdings, plans on using 135-megawatts of power for the farming campus – enough energy to power about 20,000 individual homes. (or Al Gore's house) According to Newsbtc, of the $251 million investment, $8 to $10 million will be spent on new electric infrastructure. $60 million will be spent on between 70 to 200 separate mining units which will use power transmitted through a new substation.
