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Bitcoin miner Hut 8 is closing its mining site in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, due to power disruptions and surging energy costs.
According to the March 6 <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/03/06/2841217/0/en/Hut-8-Streamlines-Operations-with-Closure-of-Drumheller-Site.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">announcement</a>, Hut 8's Drumheller mining facility, which mines approximately 1.4% of the firm's Bitcoin (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-price">BTC</a>) but at the cost of around 11% of its hash rate, will be closed effective immediately.
"Following a comprehensive analysis, we have determined that the profitability of Drumheller has been impacted significantly by various factors, including elevated energy costs and underlying voltage issues," Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8, said in a statement. Effectively immediately, all of the company's Bitcoin miners will be relocated to its Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada facility. "Hut 8 will maintain its lease at the site and the option value of re-energizing the site if market conditions improve," its staff wrote.
A combination of factors, such as high energy costs, alongside record mining difficulty and the anticipated Bitcoin halving, which will reduce mining rewards by 50%, have resulted in sector stagnation. According to data <a href="https://energyrates.ca/why-alberta-electricity-bills-are-getting-higher-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">compiled</a> by Energyrates.ca, electricity prices per kilowatt hour (kWh) have increased by 1,000% in Alberta, Canada, since 2017. The provincial government has also <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/green-block-mining-settlement-utilities-commission-1.7099790" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">restricted</a> new cryptocurrency mining projects due to concerns over their power use.&nbsp;
For the first nine months of 2023, Hut 8’s revenue <a href="https://hut8.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Hut-8-FS-Q3-2023_FINAL-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">fell</a> by 57% year-over-year to CA$ 55,184 ($40,757), largely due to falling Bitcoin prices at the time. In terms of hash rate, Hut 8 currently accounts for <a href="https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/hashrate-chart" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">1.3%</a> of the Bitcoin network’s overall processing power. 
&nbsp;On Jan. 19, Hut 8 stock fell by more than 23% in a single day after <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-miner-hut8-share-price-jcapital-research-report-short-selling">allegations surfaced</a> from short sellers accusing the company’s partner USBTC of legal trouble in a $725 million merger deal. Hut 8 has since stated that the <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/01/24/2815042/0/en/Hut-8-Corp-responds-to-misleading-short-report.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">report</a> "is filled with inaccuracies, misrepresented data, speculative claims, and unfounded character attacks." On February 8, the firm's former CEO, Jaime Leverton, <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/hut8-ceo-resign-pump-and-dump-short-seller-allegation">resigned</a>.&nbsp;
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Hut 8 closes Bitcoin mining site, citing surging energy costs

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