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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Dipuo Patel, CTO of Soluna, joins us to talk about renewable-powered Bitcoin mining operations, including Soluna's Project Annie - a 75MW solar-powered data center in northeast Texas. We dive into the challenges of behind-the-meter renewable mining, curtailment solutions, production tax credits, and how Bitcoin mining can solve renewable energy's biggest problems.
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Notes:
- Project Annie: 75MW data center, 140MW solar farm
- Texas has massive renewable energy scale
- Production tax credits incentivize green energy
- Behind-the-meter regulations are complex
- Wind farms often run at 30-40% capacity
- Battery storage too expensive for Bitcoin mining
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
01:51 Green energy
07:34 Behind the meter
10:36 Markets other than Texas
14:01 Renewable energy credits
17:05 Project Annie
19:33 Tax credit rules
26:38 Renewables, AI & uptime
33:16 Owning vs service provider
37:11 Headwinds for renewables
44:43 Batteries
