Nuclear-Adjacent Mining Deals Multiply in Appalachia
Operators are signing long-dated power purchase agreements with baseload generators, trading price optionality for certainty.
By Julian Marsh ·
Hashrate, energy markets and the physical infrastructure of proof-of-work.
Operators are signing long-dated power purchase agreements with baseload generators, trading price optionality for certainty.

Miners negotiate curtailment agreements as summer temperatures threaten local energy stability.
Older machines have left the network, lifting revenue per unit of hashrate for the operators that survived the compression.
Next-generation machines promise marginal efficiency gains that reshape the economics of older fleets.
Heat and humidity have pushed operators toward liquid cooling, a capital-intensive change that also extends hardware life.