A company that produces chips for hardware used in blockchain and artificial intelligence applications has launched a mining farm in Texas and committed to teaching blockchain to local students. Bitmain is constructing a 25-megawatt "mining farm" — a specialized data center — in Rockdale, with ambitions to double capacity and build what it's calling the "world's largest cryptocurrency mine." Bitmain has its headquarters in Beijing. The new location — on a 33,000-acre site previously occupied by Alcoa — has the potential to expand by a factor of six. This is the third cryptocurrency mine project invested in by ... (full story)