Green Bitcoin mining proof of concept using Tesla solar and battery storage

The site will pair a 3.8MW solar PV array with 12MWh of Megapacks, enabling a 30 Petahash hash rate — a measure of the computational power used by the cryptocurrency mining’s proof-of-work.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk famously said in the past that his company would row back on its interest in Bitcoin due to the use of fossil fuels in mining, despite other attractive characteristics that crypto has.

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