While Sweden’s large mining-equipment companies are suffering from low demand, another type of mining there has struck gold.
Sweden’s KnC Miner—a company that makes powerful computers solely built to create bitcoins—Thursday said it is establishing a huge data center in Boden in the northernmost part of the Scandinavian nation to offer spare bitcoin-mining capacity.
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