比特币持有人Mara Holdings最近在德克萨斯州收购了一个风电场，以帮助其一部分加密货币运营

比特币持有人Mara Holdings最近收购了德克萨斯州的一个风电场，以帮助其一部分加密货币运营。该公司计划降低可再生能源来降低比特币的生产成本

Mara Holdings, the world's second-largest publicly traded corporate bitcoin holder, has acquired a wind farm in Texas to help power some of its cryptocurrency operations.

玛拉·控股（Mara Holdings）是世界第二大公开交易的公司比特币持有人，已在德克萨斯州收购了一个风电场，以帮助为其一些加密货币运营提供动力。

The company aims to lower its bitcoin production costs with "near zero" energy prices from the renewable energy source and help address the massive energy needs of bitcoin mining.

该公司的目标是通过可再生能源的“接近零”能源价格降低其比特币生产成本，并有助于满足比特币采矿的巨大能源需求。

According to Chainalysis data, as of December 2022, the total electricity consumption of bitcoin miners is estimated at about 124.8 terawatt-hours per year. For perspective, the whole country of Argentina uses about 121 terawatt-hours of electricity annually.

根据链分析数据，截至2022年12月，比特币矿工的总电量估计为每年约124.8吨。从角度来看，整个阿根廷国家每年使用大约121吨电力。

Recently, there's been a big push to transition mining operations to cheaper, more renewable energy sources to help reduce reliance on dirty energy. Possible solutions for bitcoin's energy problem include excess energy deals, solar panels, wave energy, geothermal, and offshore or onshore wind — like that now utilized by Mara.

最近，过渡采矿业务进行了巨大的努力，以更便宜，更可再生的能源，以帮助减少对肮脏能源的依赖。比特币能源问题的可能解决方案包括过量的能源交易，太阳能电池板，波浪能，地热和海上或陆上风，就像现在由Mara使用的那样。

The company plans to continue using last-generation ASIC mining hardware to power its operations in the U.S. Without wind farm power, Mara said this hardware would "have otherwise been written off or sold into the secondary market," replaced by more energy-efficient models.

该公司计划继续使用最后一代ASIC采矿硬件在没有风电源的情况下为其在美国的运营提供动力，Mara表示，该硬件“否则将被注销或出售到二级市场上”，取而代之的是更节能的模型。

With wind power, last-generation ASICs can keep up with newer models, curbing electronic waste. All of that makes the plan a smart one, with the only real downside being that this wind farm purchased in Texas would otherwise be powering the grid. Bitcoin mining companies building their own new renewable infrastructure, or making joint investments with grid operators to do so, will be even better to ensure the percentages of clean energy continue to rise, though it's understandable that the company would want to put its plan into motion as soon as possible.

借助风能，最后一代的ASIC可以跟上更新的型号，并遏制电子废物。所有这些使该计划变得聪明，唯一真正的缺点是，在德克萨斯州购买的风电场否则将为电网提供动力。比特币矿业公司建立自己的新可再生基础设施，或与电网运营商进行联合投资，将会更好，以确保清洁能源的百分比继续上升，尽管可以理解，该公司希望尽快将其计划提出。

Mara has faced complaints in the state too, though, for noise pollution from one of its other mining centers, including reports of vertigo and hearing loss.

不过，玛拉（Mara）在该州也面临投诉，因为其其他一个采矿中心之一的噪音污染，包括眩晕和听力损失的报告。

In a press release, the company said it hopes the wind farm acquisition and reuse of otherwise dated ASICs demonstrates Mara's "commitment to environmental stewardship."

该公司在新闻稿中表示，它希望风电场的收购和重复使用以前的ASICS展示Mara的“对环境管理的承诺”。

"With this added renewable energy asset, MARA now owns and operates 136 megawatts of generating capacity," Mara CEO Fred Thiel said in the release. For comparison, one megawatt of commercial wind power would be enough to power close to 350 American homes, based on an estimate from the U.S. Geological Survey.

玛拉首席执行官弗雷德·蒂尔（Fred Thiel）在新闻稿中说：“随着这增加了可再生能源资产，玛拉（Mara）现在拥有并拥有136兆瓦的产能。”为了进行比较，根据美国地质调查局的估计，一兆瓦的商用风能将足以足以接近350户房屋。

Thiel added: "This acquisition not only extends the economic life of our ASIC miners, but also drives reduction in operational costs, bringing us closer to achieving near net-zero operating costs."

泰尔补充说：“这项收购不仅延长了我们的ASIC矿工的经济生活，而且延长了降低运营成本，使我们更加接近净零净运营成本。”

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