Dan Burrell: A new kind of mining king for Butte

Multimillionaire entrepreneur Dan Burrell isn’t a copper king, but he is the king of a new kind of Butte mining.

Burrell’s interest in copper extends only to the wires that bring him the high-voltage juice he needs to do his kind of mining — the hunt for cryptocurrency. With plans for 124 megawatts of power to pulse into the former MSE campus 5 miles south of Butte, Burrell’s CryptoWatt LLC is poised to become the biggest power consumer in the state by the end of the year.

It takes 30 to 35 megawatts to power the entire town of Butte.

SUSAN DUNLAP [email protected]

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