Hut 8 King Mountain data center
A 280 MW bitcoin mining data center near McCamey that Hut 8 runs through a 50-50 joint venture, sited next to a West Texas wind farm. Also known as: King Mountain Joint Venture, Echo site (USBTC).
Who is behind it
NextEra Energy (JV partner)
The record, newest first
Hut 8's platform page lists King Mountain at McCamey, Texas, as an ASIC compute site. (Hut 8, Oct. 31, 2026)
In an SEC filing, Hut 8 grouped King Mountain with its Tier I ASIC compute data centers. (Hut 8 Corp. (SEC EDGAR, Exhibit 99.2), Dec. 17, 2025)
Hut 8 listed King Mountain at 280 MW and counted the whole site in its self-mining operations. (Hut 8, Nov. 4, 2024)
USBTC described its Upton County site as co-located with a wind farm and said it had joined the joint venture with NextEra in December 2022 by buying Compute North's half. (Business Wire, May 17, 2023)
Ahead of its merger with Hut 8, USBTC disclosed that it owned half of the King Mountain Joint Venture, which held 1.7 EH/s of self-mining capacity in Texas. (Hut 8 Mining Corp. (SEC EDGAR, Rule 425), April 27, 2023)
Conflicts and open questions
- Bitcoin mining data center; no announced conversion to AI/HPC found.
- Identifying USBTC's Upton County 'Echo' site with King Mountain rests on both being the wind-farm JV site in Upton County; Hut 8's platform page places King Mountain at McCamey.
- Coordinates approximate, near McCamey.
The full record
- Power note
- Energy capacity under management as listed by Hut 8.
- Evidence
- Primary public records
- Size class
- 50 MW or more (tracker scope)