Agriforce Growing Systems Ltd., a Canadian farm, has launched a Bitcoin mining operation in Alberta, powered by stranded natural gas.
In his June 17 announcementAgriforce said that the site was launched in collaboration with energy supplier BlueFlare Energy.
The site, based in Berwyn, Alberta, is the first operational implementation of the company under its Power & Compute Initiative. It uses 425 Kilowatt (kW) of power to support 120 Bitmain S21 ASIC my workers, which supplies more than 32 Petahashhes per second (PH/s) computing power (PH/s).
The implementation includes a tailor -made mine pod with highly efficient air flow, thermal controls and BlueFlare’s own telemetry system for performance monitoring.
Agriforce said that Berwyn’s facility is completely powered by stranded natural gas, that natural gas is that cannot be sold or accessible through traditional infrastructure. The site also has BlueFlare’s emission tracking system, Carbon Cube, to guarantee compliance with the environment and real-time monitoring.
Phase 2 of the project is currently underway and is expected to increase the capacity of the site with another 200 kW, which means that the total is brought to more than 625 kW.
To date, Agriforce has mined seven bitcoin in his Alberta and Ohio activities, with a value of around $ 735,000. The company stated that it can retain up to 50% of the mined BTC in its business treasure box, while the rest will be used to finance the expansion of the infrastructure.
It is also planning to allocate half of its capital to direct Bitcoin purchases as part of its Treasury strategy.
In addition to the Berwyn site, Agriforce signed a binding declaration of intent with BlueFlare to implement two more sites in Alberta, located in Oyen and Hinton.
Each of these will replicate the Berwyn model and modular, off-grid gas-to-power units with approximately 640 kW. The new sites then support workload -mining, including AI -insference, industrial IoT processing and edge computing.
Agriforce is intended to scale its operational capacity on more than 0.5 exhasheshes per second (EH/s) at the fourth quarter of 2025, with a long -term objective to reach 1 EH/s on Q1 2026.
As Bitcoin-Mijnbouw becomes more energy-intensive, operators are increasingly looking for alternative power sources to reduce costs and improve sustainability. Recently trends Wise to a switch from energy sources based on coal, with the acceptance of renewable energy among miners who grow with an annual percentage of 5.8%.
New initiatives are emerging all over the world to support more sustainable mining practices.
Earlier this year, the Senator Ted Cruz of the United States, for example, introduced the Flare ACT, a bill that offers tax stimuli for cryptomine workers who use wide -la’s natural gas into power operations. The legislation proposes 100% diplomas for systems that reuse other wasted gas in electricity or computing power.
In the meantime, Pakistan has recently announced plans to allocate 2,000 megawatts excess electricity to Bitcoin -Mybouw and AI data centers as part of a broader national strategy to prevent energy waste and to withdraw technical investments.
