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Mining news and original analysis with dated primary sources.
Applied Digital brings another 75 MW online at Polaris Forge 1
Three newly ready 25 MW halls lift the Ellendale campus to 250 MW of operating critical IT load; the fully leased campus remains contracted for 400 MW at full buildout.
Wärtsilä, Schneider and Stanley present a generator-to-chip data-center model
The three companies propose coordinating onsite generation, electrical systems and engineering from the start; no customer, site, megawatt award or guaranteed schedule saving was announced.
JERA, Dell and RHAELM plan a 400 MW AI campus at Chiba power station
The partners signed an MoU for a behind-the-meter project expected to exceed $15 billion across all phases, with operations targeted around 2028; capacity and financing remain planned rather than operating.
Fog Hashing becomes Fog Computing while retaining its mining brand
The cooling-infrastructure supplier is widening its scope to prefabricated AI data centers and colocation, while Fog Hashing continues as its Bitcoin mining infrastructure brand.
Atlantic HPC acquires Tennessee entity with 29 MW of contracted demand
Atlantic bought Valley Oasis Development, which holds two 14.5 MW Dyersburg power contracts and a one-acre lease; utility work is still required before the capacity can be energized.
Applied Digital selects Brookwood, Alabama for its Delta Forge 2 AI campus
The company places its previously announced 210 MW lease at a 160-acre Brookwood campus, with operations targeted for 2028 and more than $3.2 billion of combined investment.
Crusoe confirms Google’s Texas AI campus links to 531 MW of wind generation
Crusoe says it is developing Google’s Armstrong County campus beside two 265.5 MW wind farms. Construction is under way, but the release does not disclose campus load, opening date or total power supply.
Aligned Data Centers adopts Phaidra Prism as a read-only operations intelligence layer
Phaidra says Aligned will deploy Prism across its portfolio to analyse building, electrical and infrastructure telemetry. The release provides no measured savings, deployment schedule or facility list.
Hut 8 closes a $1.07 billion revolving facility for AI and ASIC infrastructure
Hut 8 says its new four-year senior secured revolving credit facility provides up to $1.07 billion of parent-level liquidity. No amount was drawn at closing, and the same amount is available as a letter-of-credit sublimit for development collateral and other corporate needs.
Cipher extends Barber Lake lease horizon to 20 years and over $9 billion
Cipher Digital says a lease amendment and a binding commitment for a following ten-year term raise Barber Lake contracted revenue from $3.8 billion to more than $9 billion. Delivery is now phased from Q4 2026 through Q1 2027, and Cipher bears the first $359.3 million of costs above the initial budget.
Sphere 3D becomes DarkHorse Technologies and shifts Nasdaq ticker to DRK after mining asset sales
Sphere 3D completed its corporate renaming as DarkHorse Technologies and moved to the Nasdaq ticker DRK. The company says it has divested its Iowa site and legacy mining fleet and now expects 50 MW operating across four Tennessee and Kentucky data centres, with further Kentucky expansion still proposed.
Starcloud says its second spacecraft will carry Bitcoin mining ASICs later in 2026
Starcloud’s CEO says the company intends to operate Bitcoin ASICs aboard its second spacecraft. The plan has no disclosed miner model, hashrate, power budget, launch date or pool architecture, and the official Starcloud-2 project page cited by the report did not mention Bitcoin mining.