Merkle Standard — Hydropower Mining and Greenhouse Heat

Merkle Standard is a vertically integrated digital-infrastructure company focused on site acquisition, data-center conversion, bitcoin mining, and hosting. Its flagship Usk, Washington property is described as having 225 megawatts of power infrastructure, approximately 900 acres, and more than 350,000 square feet of usable building area. The company emphasizes renewable electricity at developed sites and operates hydro-cooled mining systems suited to high-density deployment. In 2023 it began routing waste heat from the Usk data center into a greenhouse; a 2024 update reported that the greenhouse maintained growing conditions through winter and that the community partnership was expanding. Merkle Standard also markets additional North American mining sites, although capacity and operating status differ by location. The company is private, so site-level documentation is particularly important for counterparties. Prospective users should verify utility rights, energized load, host contract terms, equipment ownership, cooling capacity, insurance, and whether heat-reuse infrastructure is operational at the specific building under consideration.