{
  "id": 3014253,
  "title": "Datacentrex to deploy 500 prepaid miners within 30 days",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/datacentrex-to-deploy-500-prepaid-miners-within-30-days",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-24T12:12:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Investing.com",
    "slug": "investing-com",
    "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/datacentrex-to-deploy-500-prepaid-miners-within-30-days-93CH-4873435"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Datacentrex, Inc., a digital asset mining company trading on NASDAQ (DTCX), has announced plans to deploy 500 prepaid ElphaPex DG2 Scrypt ASIC miners within the next 30 days, according to a press release. The miners were purchased in 2025, requiring no additional capital expenditure. Upon delivery and energization, the deployment will add approximately 9.0 TH/s of Scrypt hashrate, increasing the company's aggregate deployed hashrate to around 52 TH/s, representing a 21% increase. Currently, Datacentrex operates 3,085 Scrypt ASIC miners, generating a total hash rate of 43.2 TH/s across four US colocation facilities. CEO Parker Scott emphasized the company's consistent strategy of preserving liquidity, protecting the balance sheet, and building its asset base amid a down market, and this deployment aligns with that approach. The deployment follows recent movement in the Scrypt-mining market, with Dogecoin prices up approximately 32% during the week ending August 21, trading near $0.09 as of August 22. Datacentrex merges-mines Dogecoin and Litecoin under the Scrypt algorithm, with mining revenue directly tied to price movements in these assets. The company is transitioning to sectors such as digital-asset infrastructure, data-center operations, and quantum-computing-adjacent technologies.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [
    "Datacentrex to deploy 500 prepaid ElphaPex DG2 ASIC miners in 30 days.",
    "Deployment adds ~9.0 TH/s hashrate, increasing total to ~52 TH/s.",
    "CEO Parker Scott highlights liquidity preservation and asset building strategy."
  ],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}