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New Alaska Bitcoin mine would use as much power as the state’s largest coal plant produces

New Alaska Bitcoin mine would use as much power as the state’s largest coal plant produces

The startup planning the operation near the North Slope oil fields would power its computers not with coal but with another fossil fuel: natural gas that’s currently going unused.

Data centers face growing opposition Outside. Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants them in Alaska.

Data centers face growing opposition Outside. Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants them in Alaska.

The Republican governor says Alaska has in excess what the data industry is finding increasingly scarce Outside: land and water, if not cheap electricity. He also says new data centers would boost the case for Alaska’s proposed natural gas pipeline.

In latest sign of North Slope’s evolution, privately owned Texas company targets Chevron’s Alaska assets

In latest sign of North Slope’s evolution, privately owned Texas company targets Chevron’s Alaska assets

A little known Texas company is buying a share of a key North Slope pipeline and asked to buy all of Chevron's oil interests in the region — reviving questions about the Alaska oil industry’s capacity to decommission aging infrastructure and pay damages in the event of a spill.