When it comes to bitcoin mining, people generally fall into categories: those who are fans, those who don't understand it, and those who dislike how many natural resources it gobbles up.
But some companies are looking to create more sustainable ways to mine bitcoin. According to Business Wire, Soluna Holdings recently announced it had received approval from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to begin energizing and commissioning its Project Dorothy 2, a green data center for bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence operations.
The original Project Dorothy is a 100-megawatt data center connected to a wind farm in Texas. Soluna Holdings named Project Dorothy after Dorothy Vaughan, an African American mathematician who worked for NASA and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1939 and was crucial to the success of the U.S. space program.
Project Dorothy 2 is expected to have double the capacity of Project Dorothy 1 and will significantly expand the company's bitcoin mining capacity.
Considering the impact bitcoin mining has on the environment when powered by dirty fuels, green data centers such as Project Dorothy 2 are vital. Crypto and AI also rely on enormous quantities of natural resources, including water, to operate.
Data centers that rely on wind farms and other renewable energy sources could help reduce the carbon footprint of cryptocurrency. In other words, fewer polluting gases would enter the atmosphere, leading to cleaner and healthier air.
But while green data centers like Project Dorothy 2 are a significant step in the right direction, more efforts should be made to improve the sustainability of crypto.
Regular crypto data centers can increase air pollution, strain energy grids, and increase the cost of electricity for consumers, so mitigating these repercussions is imperative.
Project Dorothy 2 will offset some of the damage bitcoin mining can do to the environment and may prove to be an inspiration to other companies.
"The energization of Project Dorothy 2 builds on the success of Project Dorothy 1, demonstrating how Soluna's approach to curtailment solutions and sustainable computing can be scaled efficiently," Soluna CEO John Belizaire said, per Business Wire.
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