BTC Digital is expanding its U.S. Bitcoin-mining hosting business around a facility in Manila, Arkansas, where a new customer agreement puts the less-visible parts of mining infrastructure—power, cooling, network connectivity, equipment testing and on-site maintenance—at the center of the deal.

On September 9, BTC Digital signed a hosting agreement with Tianci Group Holding, a subsidiary of Tianci International. Under the signed arrangement, BTC Digital will receive and register the customer’s mining equipment, perform standard testing and provide rack space, electricity, cooling and ventilation, internet connectivity, physical security and on-site technical support. The company says service begins only after the equipment is delivered and successfully passes testing.

A Hosting Contract Is an Infrastructure Contract

Mining hosting is sometimes reduced to a price per kilowatt-hour, but the Arkansas agreement illustrates the physical stack behind that number. An operator must provide energized rack positions, adequate airflow, stable network access, security and technicians who can commission equipment and respond when a machine, PSU, control board or network path fails.

That makes the agreement relevant beyond its size. BitcoinVersus.tech recently examined how mining cooling and electrical infrastructure is moving into AI data centers and why exact ASIC hardware compatibility matters during field repairs. Hosting sits between those layers: facility infrastructure has to support the machine, while technicians have to know what is actually installed.

The Relationship Could Grow Toward 3 MW

Six days after the hosting announcement, the companies disclosed a second step. Tianci and BTC Digital signed a strategic memorandum describing a phased crypto-computing project targeting approximately 3 MW of aggregate electrical load within twelve months. An SEC-filed exhibit says BTC Digital intends to provide or coordinate sites, power, hosting infrastructure, equipment deployment and operational support.

The distinction is important: the September 9 hosting agreement is a signed service arrangement, while the roughly 3 MW expansion is described as an MOU and a target. It should not be reported as 3 MW of completed or energized mining capacity.

Arkansas Remains a Bitcoin-Mining Base

BTC Digital’s current corporate material says its Arkansas power facility is primarily supporting cryptocurrency mining. The company is simultaneously planning modular liquid-cooled environments for higher-density AI workloads, showing how mining sites can become operating laboratories for power, cooling and data-center management.

The same infrastructure-first logic is visible elsewhere in the sector. The Vault is using a small Antminer deployment to validate another mining site, while Sterling Digital used live mining load during commissioning of its West Texas generation system. In each case, ASICs are not merely revenue-producing boxes; they are electrical loads that expose whether a facility’s power, network and thermal systems work under real conditions.

Testing Before Energization Matters

The Tianci agreement explicitly makes testing a condition before hosting service begins. That is a practical detail with large consequences. Incoming miners can arrive with damaged fans, loose connectors, failed hashboards, corrupted firmware, mismatched control boards or configuration inherited from a previous site. Connecting an unverified batch directly into production can turn a shipping problem into a facility-wide troubleshooting queue.

A disciplined intake process should identify the unit, record serial and hardware information, inspect connectors and airflow paths, verify firmware and pool configuration, test network reachability, and compare local hashrate with pool-side performance. The workflow becomes even more important as firmware gains deeper control over machine behavior; BitcoinVersus.tech recently reported that BitFuFuOS can dynamically change ASIC operating profiles as power conditions change.

Three Megawatts Is Thousands of Kilowatts to Maintain

A 3 MW target is modest beside the industry’s hundred-megawatt campuses, but it is still an industrial electrical load. The facility has to deliver those megawatts continuously through transformers, distribution equipment and branch circuits while moving ASIC heat out of the building and maintaining network uptime.

That is why BTC Digital CEO Siguang Peng emphasized stable power, network connectivity, cooling and disciplined on-site management when announcing the hosting agreement. The contract is ultimately a bet that operating infrastructure—and the technicians maintaining it—can be sold as a service alongside the electricity consumed by the miners.

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