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 ...

The “Sandow Switch” that once was used by the Alcoa coal power plant now provides electricity for the bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas. Photo: MARK FELIX/AFP (Getty Images ...

The metals giant is looking to jettison as much as $1-billion in assets, including the roughly 32 000-acre property in Rockdale, Texas ... a cryptocurrency mining operation. Alcoa has been ...

The company has a 750-megawatt capacity Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas — one of the largest sites for crypto-mining by computing power in the world. Riot said 17,040 out of its ...

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 ...