Gov. Greg Abbott is nobody’s idea of a tech bro, but 10 years ago he saw great potential in the fledgling cryptocurrency industry. During his first run for governor in 2014, Abbott became one of the ...

WASHINGTON — The tension among Texas Republicans around crypto mining’s impact on the Texas power grid is ramping up after former President Donald Trump pledged his allegiance to bitcoin. In a post on ...

Bitcoin mining has seen exponential growth since the first ASIC miner was shipped in 2013, improving hardware efficiency from 1,200 J/TH to just 15 J/TH. While these advancements were driven by better ...

Texas elected officials have turned on a bitcoin mining industry they once embraced. But the much-maligned crypto data center sector may end up being a key part of the solution to the state’s power ...

Microsoft is building huge AI data centers in Arizona and Wisconsin to provide the infrastructure for powering this transformational technology. And AI is hot — literally. Such data centers put a ...

China is pulling in 14% of global Bitcoin mining power, despite its own ban still being on paper. That’s what’s playing out right now across places like Xinjiang and Sichuan, where miners are lighting ...