Also, although Texas might be a good location to setup a pool it is not that great to setup a mining operation.
Well, since people build mining farms there and not in Oregon they might know something, isn't it?
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It gets hot in the summer driving up cooling costs.
Do you know where 1/3 of the hashrate in the world is located? In a damn desert!
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Xinjiang has the worst climate possible in China is we count summer temperatures, but that doesn't matter when the power is so cheap you can afford to pay triple on cooling. Besides, industrial cooling is highly effective, when you pay 2cents per kWh you stop caring about what's outside.
It's all a matter of money, and with Texas producing one and a half more energy than the second state in the US despite not being the most populous one, places with dirt-cheap energy are easy to find, especially ones that had already seen high electricity usage like the Alcoa smelter it cuts a lot of investing which don't come cheap, especially when we go above 10MW.
How do you know that Chinese miners aren't expanding their facilities and updating their equipment?
From where the US miners will buy their mining equipment?AFAIK,Chinese companies are producing most of the crypto mining hardware.
Bitmain doesn't care who pays for the miners if it's from the US or EU or China.
There is no Chinese or American in this business, it's a company that is based in some country and nothing more, business is not always about politics. Bitmain is supplying Riot with 50k miners and Marathon with 100k, what matters is selling as fast as possible to the guys who can afford to pay more and grab the profit, hardcore nationalism is not good for business.