The Texas Bitcoin Mining Map

What does this map show?

This map tracks 13 of the most consequential industrial sites in Texas's Bitcoin-and-AI power story — the operating mines, roughly 2.8 GW of developed capacity and more than 4 GW counting ERCOT-approved expansion, plus the miner-built AI campuses now rising beside them. Every capacity figure is the operator's own published number or reputable trade-press reporting, cited below. Smaller and off-grid operations — including the flare-gas miners of the Permian Basin — aren't pinned here, so treat this as the industrial backbone, not a census. The dataset was last verified August 30, 2026, and we re-verify it quarterly alongside the history of Bitcoin in Texas.

Where are the biggest Bitcoin mines in Texas?

The biggest Bitcoin mines in Texas are Riot's Rockdale facility (700 MW developed) and Corsicana campus (400 MW mining, 1 GW approved), MARA's Granbury site (~300 MW), Cipher's Black Pearl (300 MW) and Odessa (207 MW), and Hut 8's King Mountain (280 MW).^{[1][2][9][12]} Rockdale is where the industrial era began: Bitmain broke ground on the former Alcoa aluminum smelter land in 2019, Whinstone built the giant next door, and Riot bought it in May 2021 for roughly $651 million.^[3][4] One town in Milam County — hollowed out when the smelter closed — became the mining capital of the Western Hemisphere.

Why is Bitcoin mining concentrated in West Texas?

Because that's where the stranded power is. West Texas generates enormous wind and solar output that transmission lines can't always carry to the cities, and miners are the buyers of last resort for those electrons. Hut 8's King Mountain site sits directly beside a wind farm on a mesa outside McCamey.^[12] Layer1 proved the model first: in February 2020 — before Riot, before China's ban — the Peter Thiel-backed startup was mining in liquid-cooled containers off its own 100 MW substation in Ward County, powering down to sell energy back when prices spiked.^[15][16] That playbook — mine cheap, curtail high — became standard practice through ERCOT's demand response programs, which pay large loads to power down when the grid is stressed.^[17]

Why are Bitcoin mines turning into AI data centers?

Because the scarcest resource in computing is no longer chips — it's connected power, and miners spent a decade accumulating it. Galaxy bought the distressed Argo Helios mine in Dickens County for $65 million in December 2022; on July 6, 2026, it delivered the first 133 MW to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease projected to generate over $1 billion a year at full buildout.^[11] Core Scientific is converting its Denton campus in a $6.1 billion buildout.^[13][14] Cipher's brand-new Black Pearl site leased straight to Amazon.^[10] ERCOT's interconnection queue swelled from roughly 226 GW in early 2026 to about 474 GW by that August — most of it AI — enough to force the state's hand.^[19][20] This is not Bitcoin losing to AI — it's the infrastructure Bitcoin built becoming the on-ramp for the next compute frontier, while mining stays the anchor tenant at sites like Rockdale.

What did Texas's August 2026 data-center audit change?

On August 4, 2026, Governor Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT to audit every data-center project in the state's interconnection queue, and ERCOT paused “Batch Zero,” the first classification of its largest new loads.^[20] The queue had swelled to roughly 474 gigawatts of requests — about 90% of it data centers — a figure no grid can physically build, so the audit is Texas sorting the real projects from the speculative ones. For the sites already on this map, that reframes the whole board: an ERCOT-approved interconnection stops being paperwork and becomes the moat. As Bernstein put it, “if MWs are scarce, it makes sense to earn more per MW” — and the operators with power already in hand, Riot's 700 MW at Rockdale and its approved gigawatt at Corsicana among them, are the ones holding it.^[20]

What the audit is now screening is a Texas land-grab for miner-built AI capacity. Hut 8 has fully contracted its 1-gigawatt Beacon Point campus in Nueces County to a single high-grade tenant — reported to be Nvidia — across two 15-year, 352 MW leases worth $19.6 billion.^[21] Cipher leased the entirety of its 300 MW Barber Lake site in Mitchell County to Fluidstack in a roughly $3 billion deal that Google agreed to backstop.^[23] MARA signed to acquire a Matagorda County site carrying up to 2 GW of power for a campus that will blend high-performance computing with flexible Bitcoin mining, paying out as milestones — grid authorization among them — are met.^[22] Even Bitdeer has flagged its Rockdale campus as a candidate for AI/HPC conversion in its operations updates.^[24] This is why we keep the mining map and the grid in the same frame: the machines Bitcoin installed are why Texas is now the front line of the AI power crunch — and why the state just hit pause to take inventory.

The counterweight: Granbury's noise fight

The record isn't all triumph, and we keep the hard parts in. MARA's Granbury mine runs behind-the-meter at the 1,115 MW Wolf Hollow gas plant, and its cooling fans have made it the most litigated Bitcoin site in Texas: neighbors report sleep disruption and hearing problems, a Hood County constable issued 37 noise citations, and residents have filed nuisance suits in both state and federal court.^[7][8] How MARA answers — with sound walls, immersion cooling, or a settlement — will shape how close to homes the next generation of sites gets built.

How to cite this map

This dataset is free to cite with attribution (CC BY 4.0): TexasBitcoin, “Texas Bitcoin Mining Map,” texasbitcoin.com/bitcoin-mining-map-texas, updated August 30, 2026. Corrections and additions are welcome — reach us via the about page. Looking for the people behind the machines? Start with Texas Bitcoin meetups and conferences.