Texas, the new El Dorado for bitcoin miners

Arriving by the southern route, the old Alcoa aluminum smelter still saturates the landscape. Chimneys flashing to avoid a collision with an airplane are the last sign of life at the site, which closed its doors in 2008 after half a century of operation, leaving hundreds of employees on the floor in the middle of the prairies of the Texas, an hour’s drive from Austin.

You have to go around the artificial lake and the old power station fed by a coal mine, which also closed a few years ago. Behind the power lines lies the new frontier of Texas industry: bitcoin production.

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