# Bitdeer Weathersfield

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Bitdeer Weathersfield, formerly called Niles, is a planned colocation and AI cloud data center at 1047 Belmont Ave., the former Niles Generating coal plant site in Trumbull County, Ohio. Bitdeer bought the land in May 2025 for $3.4 million. Bitdeer says the site will not mine cryptocurrency and plans its own substation and municipal-water cooling. Residents protested at an April 2026 council meeting.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: proposed
- Asset scope: facility
- Location: 1047 Belmont Ave., Niles, Trumbull County, OH

## Power and grid context

- Electric utility: FirstEnergy
- Substation: Existing substation on the property; Bitdeer plans to build its own substation

## Development

- Construction: Site of the former Niles Generating plant, a coal-burning Ohio Edison plant built in 1953 and closed in 2013; buildings and stacks demolished April 2022.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation, ai_hpc
- Operating context: Planned colocation / AI cloud data center; Bitdeer told Niles officials the facility will only have data servers and will not mine cryptocurrency.

## Sources

- [Bitdeer Eyes 'Energization' for Weathersfield Project in 2029](https://businessjournaldaily.com/bitdeer-eyes-energization-for-weathersfield-project-in-2029/)
- [Bitdeer Reports Unaudited Financial Results for the Second Quarter of 2026](https://finviz.com/news/379688/bitdeer-reports-unaudited-financial-results-for-the-second-quarter-of-2026)
- [U.S. Census street-address geocode](https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/geographies/onelineaddress?address=1047+Belmont+Ave.%2C+Niles%2C+OH&benchmark=Public_AR_Current&vintage=Current_Current&format=json)
- [Niles hears from data center firm - The Vindicator](https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2026/04/niles-hears-from-data-center-firm/)

## Data quality

- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.
- Map point: approximate U.S. Census street-address geocode.

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Profile generated: 2026-10-09T16:45:04.597023Z
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