Crypto mining firm Argo Blockchain has agreed to buy 20,000 mining machines for the data center it is building in West Texas.
- The Bitmain Antminer S19J Pro machines will increase London-based Argo’s hashrate by more than 2 exahash to a total of 3.7 exahash by the end of third-quarter 2022, the company announced Thursday.
- The deposit for the order is being funded by Argo’s cash reserves. The company did not give a value for the order and had not responded to a request for more information by press time.
- The machines will be dispatched to the West Texas data center starting in the second quarter next year.
- Argo completed the land purchase for the new data center in March this year.