{"id":4968,"date":"2023-03-06T17:33:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02b98dff1000272f"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:33:24","slug":"terawulf-first-fully-nuclear-powered-bitcoin-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/terawulf-first-fully-nuclear-powered-bitcoin-mining","title":{"rendered":"Terawulf Brings First Fully Nuclear-Powered Bitcoin Mining Operation In America Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Terawulf has announced roughly half of its nuclear-powered Nautilus Cryptomine has come online. The mining facility, a joint venture with Cumulus Coin, LLC., derives its energy wholly from the 2.5 GW Susquehanna nuclear generation station in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The full operation will amount to 50 MW and 1.9 EH\/s, with an option for Terawulf to add an additional 50 MW of bitcoin mining capacity, \u201cwhich the Company plans to deploy in future phases,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20230305005096\/en\/TeraWulf-Announces-Energization-and-Rapid-Deployment-of-Mining-Operations-at-the-Nautilus-Facility-in-Pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Paul Prager, chairman and CEO of TeraWulf, said that \u201cthe recent energization of the Nautilus facility earlier this month, approximately 16,000 of TeraWulf\u2019s owned miners, representing 1.9 EH\/s of self-mining capacity, are onsite and being brought online daily.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nautilus nuclear-powered mining facility benefits from what is arguably the lowest cost power in the sector, just $0.02\/kWh for a term of five years,\u201d Prager commented.<\/p>\n<p>Mining consultant and cofounder of Citadel 256, Magdalena Gronowska, previously <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/business\/nuclear-powered-bitcoin-mining\">described in an article for Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> how nuclear power can revolutionize Bitcoin mining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNuclear is a carbon free, reliable and cheap energy source,\u201d she told the magazine. \u201cIt&#8217;s not perfect in that it emits nuclear waste, but every energy source has tradeoffs between environmental footprint, reliability and capital and operating costs\u2026 We need a diverse mix of energy generation, to serve both baseload and peak load, as we transition to a low carbon economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joint venture with Cumulus Coin, LLC. has brought the first nuclear-powered Bitcoin mine online in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2730,"featured_media":4969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[97,93,1656,1426,1655],"class_list":{"0":"post-4968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-mining","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nuclear-power","11":"tag-public-miners","12":"tag-terawulf"},"author_data":{"id":2730,"name":"BtcCasey","nicename":"casey","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jn_tjlo_400x400.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/nuclear-power-generation-plant.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}