Data centers and mining operations
In 2022, Bitdeer sought to raise $200 million from outside investors to purchase discounted hardware. By 2023, the company operated five data centers across the United States and Norway.
United States
In the United States, Bitdeer operates mining facilities in Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Ohio.
Bitdeer has been operating a mining facility in East Knoxville, Tennessee since 2018; the facility drew 63 megawatts of power as of 2022. In 2024, the company had approximately 30 employees in Knoxville and was the Knoxville Utilities Board's largest industrial customer, accounting for 9.4 percent of the utility's total electric sales in 2023.
Bitdeer is among the largest cryptocurrency mining operations in Texas. Its mining facility in Rockdale is housed in a former aluminum-smelting plant about an hour from Austin. The facility has participated in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to reduce electricity usage during periods of grid stress.
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In 2023, Bitdeer purchased 31 acres in Massillon, Ohio to construct a mining facility. In November 2025, a fire broke out at the construction site, damaging two buildings in the complex. The chief of Massillon Fire Department, Matt Heck, determined no signs of arson were determined, though no cause was identified. In April 2026, Bitdeer presented plans for an additional data center facility in Niles, Ohio - a project the company described as a $300 million investment expected to create approximately 50 jobs.
In July 2026, Bitdeer started construction of a manufacturing facility in Sparks, Nevada. The facility will produce circuit boards, server chips, and capacitor resistors for bitcoin mining. The factory is planned to start working in January 2027.
Norway
Bitdeer operates mining capacity in Norway. In March 2026, the company began converting its 180-megawatt site in Tydal, previously used for cryptocurrency mining, into high-performance computing capacity for AI workloads.
In August 2026, the company leased part of the site's capacity to Volta Infra Holdings under a 16-year agreement valued at US$4.7 billion, backed by $1.3 billion in credit from J.P. Morgan.
Bhutan
Bitdeer partnered with the government of Bhutan in 2023 to increase mining capacity and create a fund of up to $500 million for green mining operations in the Himalaya kingdom.
AI cloud platform
In November 2023, Bitdeer announced a partnership with Nvidia to develop AI cloud computing services and began construction on its first AI cloud data center in Singapore, branded Bitdeer AI Cloud. The business line uses Bitdeer's existing data center infrastructure, originally built for cryptocurrency mining, to provide GPU computing capacity to enterprise customers. In March 2026, Bitdeer began converting its 180-megawatt Tydal site in Norway from cryptocurrency mining to AI and high-performance computing workloads.
