Hut 8’s Salt Creek facility runs 63 MW of Bitcoin mining power in West Texas

In the dusty stretch of West Texas where oil derricks have long defined the landscape, a different kind of energy extraction is humming along. Hut 8 Corp’s Salt Creek facility, a 63-megawatt Bitcoin mining operation near Orla, Texas, represents one of the more ambitious purpose-built mining sites in North America. The facility went from groundbreaking to energization in roughly three months, coming online in April 2024. What’s actually running at Salt Creek Salt Creek sits in the Permian Basin. The facility connects to the Rio Grande Electric Cooperative grid. Hut 8 developed and manages the site, while American Bitcoin Corp, formerly known as Gryphon Digital Mining, handles the actual mining operations under colocation and management agreements. The operation uses advanced ASIC miners, the specialized hardware designed exclusively for Bitcoin’s SHA-256 hashing algorithm. Hut 8’s proprietary Reactor software manages energy consumption and optimization across the site. At 63 MW of capacity, Salt Creek is a meaningful operation. For context, 63 MW is enough to power roughly 50,000 average US homes. Why West Texas keeps winning the mining game Hut 8’s broader mining portfolio includes...