Zcash Miner Fortitude Powers Up Nebraska Facility as It Eyes Public Listing
Fortitude brought a 12-megawatt Zcash mining facility online in Grand Island, Nebraska, completing its first greenfield data center and lifting its owned power footprint to more than 60 megawatts across seven sites. The project finished construction and electrical testing and is ready for commercial operations ahead of Fortitude’s planned public listing via its merger with HeartSciences. The company says owning power assets is central to its vertically integrated mining strategy. It expects the new site to cut direct mining costs from about $70 to roughly $40 per Zcash coin, helped by lower-cost electricity, modern hardware, and a power price near $0.045 per kWh. The site sits near solar generation and a substation with excess capacity, allowing it to act as an interruptible load during peak demand. Fortitude launched in 2025 from DCG’s Foundry mining division and aims to reinvest mining profits into more equipment and sites as it expands.
