Mod42's Factory-Built Data Halls for Miners

Seven million dollars per megawatt. That is what Mod42 estimates it would cost to rebuild an existing AI data center in Plano, Texas, as a site of factory-built modules, against ten to twelve million for the traditional build. The number came from Christopher Abramo, chief executive officer of Mod42, speaking at Mining Disrupt Dallas 2025, recorded November 12 through 14, 2025. Abramo told the room he is a former Bitcoin miner who started building modular facilities in 2017.

Now Mod42 builds data centers for AI and high-performance computing in a factory and ships them to the site. His audience was miners thinking about adding AI to their business. As he put it, "on a site you have both and you're thinking about bringing AI into your Bitcoin mining business strategy." Mod42's own claims, as stated on stage: 60 percent faster, up to 40 percent cheaper and up to 50 percent less space than a traditional data center. Abramo said the speed comes from doing site work and fabrication at the same time.

In his words, "while the site's being improved, we will be building your data center in a factory and we can ship it to the site." Contractors also get faster with each module they install, he said, and the company designed around equipment with shorter lead times. On cost, he named the two biggest costs of building any site, for mining or for AI: medium-voltage distribution and site improvement. Mod42 tries to need less of both by packing more onto less land. Each data hall is rated at three megawatts, a familiar building block for miners, with 2.2 megawatts of compute inside, built around Nvidia's GB-series and B300 clusters.

Mod42 is partnered with Supermicro. Power, cooling and controls are tested at the factory, and each module runs independently, so if one goes down the site keeps going. Buyers can start at three megawatts and grow to twenty or a hundred. For the Plano thought experiment, Mod42 estimated 66 percent more compute on the same site, in modules ten to eleven feet tall instead of a twenty- to thirty-foot building.

Those are estimates for a hypothetical build, not a finished project, and Abramo was clear that nothing is wrong with the existing facility. When he spoke, Bitcoin traded at $104,994. On October 12, 2026, it was $83,455. The full story is on Intelligence Disrupt at intelligencedisrupt dot com, and many more like it play around the clock on Bitcoin Radio.