The grid of large silver trailers sitting atop a patch of asphalt on the western bank of the Susquehanna River near Berwick, Pennsylvania, might not seem like much upon first glance. Hulking over them are nuclear cooling towers that belong to the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, next to a web of energy-generating infrastructure. Inside those trailers, however, is a hive of activity — nearly 8,000 mining rigs, or supercomputers, designed to plug away at the algorithm required to mine bitcoin.
These rigs constitute the Nautilus Cryptomine, which came partly online in March and aims to be among the “largest, most efficient” bitcoin mines in North America.
