And the Railroad Commission of Texas, the state agency that oversees coal mining ... second headquarters last year, Rockdale and Milam County pitched the Alcoa property as a potential location ...

Rockdale, a small town in Texas, went through an economic ... The same energy infrastructure left behind by Alcoa became the perfect setup for Bitcoin mining. Substations and transmission lines ...

The route to Alcoa passes from Rockdale’s picturesque rolling ... that wanted to inquire about a move to central Texas. The business? Crypto-mining. The blockchain. Everyone's talking about ...

When Alcoa left Rockdale, the economy and ... That’s why Texas leaders should recognize the benefits of Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin is like a digital oil well, poised to fuel the economic revival ...

Alcoa today announced it will temporarily idle half the production at its Rockdale, Texas aluminum smelter ... tons/year for Saudi Arabia's biggest mining company.

Events in China might make mining even more profitable for farms in Texas. Over the July ... said John King, Rockdale’s mayor, who worked at the old Alcoa plant in the 1980s.

Rockdale's Bridge Park ... At least two bitcoin mining operations are setting up shop, one of them under the roof of the idled Alcoa plant. Rows of mining computers (servers), 16 feet tall ...

The bitcoin mining operation, however, has been described as the worst-kept secret in the Rockdale area ... That Texas power plant is now closed, but the Alcoa site has heavy duty electrical ...

Chinese mining hardware giant Bitmain has launched a 50MW (megawatt) cryptocurrency mining farm in Rockdale, Texas. Announcing ... owned by aluminum producer Alcoa, per the announcement.

And the Railroad Commission of Texas, the state agency that oversees coal mining ... second headquarters last year, Rockdale and Milam County pitched the Alcoa property as a potential location ...

Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune ROCKDALE — It seems like everyone ... Over half a century of mining at Alcoa’s now-shuttered Sandow lignite mine, the company has buried coal ...