Company goes live outside Houston, launches new land & energy division
Almost a year after the plans were first announced, cryptomine and AI data center company Dataprana has launched a 30MW mining site in La Marque, Texas.
Dataprana’s flagship site became operational in early June and hosts a modular setup of 30 immersion-cooled mining containers containing 5,000 of the latest ASIC (application-specific integrated circuits) machines from manufacturers including Bitmain, Whatsminer, and Canaan.
The company stated that it worked hand-in-hand with Intelliflex, which designs and builds the modular water-cooled mining containers, and provided initial on-site operational support. Additional containers were sourced from Arctic Systems.
Hailed as a key milestone for Dataprana’s newly expanded infrastructure division, the La Marque site is a living example of the company’s ability to plan and build a large-scale data center site from scratch, according to company co-founder and CEO, Arseniy Grusha.
“The completion of the La Marque project is not only a significant milestone for Dataprana, it’s a blueprint for what’s to come. This facility embodies our expertise in delivering reliable, future-ready data center solutions from the ground up. We’re proud to set a new standard for digital asset mining in the United States and look forward to developing several similar projects in the near future,” said Grusha.
La Marque is a city in Galveston County, 40 miles south of Houston and just west of Texas City.
Combined with its three indoor data centers located in New York, the La Marque site adds to Dataprana’s existing 67MW of hosting capacity, giving a combined capacity of 97MW in total.
In November 2024, the company announced it had entered a joint-venture agreement alongside DC Futureminds, Ltd to build a 1.5MW artificial intelligence (AI) data center in Galveston County, Texas.
The site is intended to act as a proof-of-concept showcasing Dataprana’s ability to attract GPU-as-a-service providers seeking co-location spaces and bespoke data center solutions.
Dataprana this week announced the launch of Prana Energy, a new division focused on land and energy acquisitions to support data center development. Prana will be co-led by Dataprana COO and co-founder Maximilian Plies and head of business development Igor Kovalyshkin, who will be acting as managing partner and CEO of the unit, respectively
