Virginia Beach, Virginia isn't exactly known as a hotbed of bitcoin mining activity, but that appears to be changing, and soon. A local company has sunk 65 million USD into a giant facility, as the resort town attempts to become a hub for data centers.

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65 Million USD Mining Facility is Nearly Completed

It almost wasn't to be. Local firm Bcause, LLC was actually looking to plunk down their 65 million dollars elsewhere. And then its hometown, Virginia Beach, Virginia cut business property taxes for data centers at the end of last year, according to The Virginian-Pilot online newspaper. The city's Director of Economic Development, Warren Harris, told the paper, "We're poised to be a hub for data centers. To reduce that tax has put us in a very, very competitive position."

If mining facility news seems to be saturating headlines of late, that's for good reason. Enthusiasts in the crypto world are used to instantaneous, frictionless, easy, quick. And for the most part that's what it is. However, in the physical world there are still a myriad of limitations when it comes to brick and mortar construction: permits, haggling with politicians over their cut, and so forth.

What the ecosystem witnesses now is the fruit of thousands of percent run-ups in bitcoin prices last year. So even though its price might've shaved much of those gains down, decisions were made back then which result in concrete being poured now.