The facility, which has added about 145 jobs, hasn’t fully filled the void created by Alcoa. sits just down the road from the old aluminum plant, about 60 miles northeast of Austin. North America’s largest bitcoin mine - owned and operated by Whinstone U.S.
The Luminant coal-fueled power plant shut down in 2017.īut now a new industry has come to the town of about 5,300. The Alcoa aluminum plant here, which provided nearly 1,000 jobs, closed in 2008. ROCKDALE - Late last decade, the town of Rockdale appeared on the verge of economic ruin.
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