Blockchain and data center technology company DMG Blockchain Solutions has announced it received verbal approval for an additional 10MW of non-firm power at its Christina Lake site in British Columbia, Canada.

The additional power takes the Christina Lake site’s total capacity to 75MW, comprising 15MW of firm power and 60MW of non-firm, or curtailable, power.

Firm power is that which is guaranteed to be available, outside of unexpected outages. Non-firm power is that which can be curtailed by grid operators during busy periods, and is thus cheaper, but less reliable.

The approval comes as DMG looks to reposition Christina Lake for generative AI workloads, as part of a broader pivot away from Bitcoin mining.

The company said it had previously applied for 150MW of firm power, but now plans to submit an application for additional non-firm capacity instead, arguing that this could be secured faster and at a lower capital cost.

DMG said its experience using non-firm power has so far been positive. According to the company, the arrangement has reduced energy costs and resulted in only three days of curtailment, all of which occurred in February 2025.

It added that financial hedging contracts could be used to mitigate curtailment risk, though at a higher average energy price. DMG said such pricing would generally be unattractive for Bitcoin mining, but could be viable for an AI data center.

DMG’s CEO, Sheldon Bennett, said the company was looking for AI-focused customers to populate its Christina Lake site.

“Even as we are focused on finding the right AI off-takers for our Christina Lake data center, in parallel, we are seeking options that will position the property to be more valuable, especially if we can provide power expansion opportunities that go well beyond 50 megawatts of critical IT load,” Bennett said.

DMG (formerly Digital Mint Group) was founded in 2016 and describes itself as a vertically integrated blockchain and data center technology company. Located in Grand Forks, the Christina Lake site launched in 2019.

Last year, the company said it was procuring 10MW of modular prefabricated data center infrastructure as part of a broader pivot from Bitcoin mining toward generative AI, amid a wider trend of crypto operators seeking to monetize power access through AI and HPC deployments.

In its latest operational update, DMG said it mined 23 BTC in both January and February, with a hashrate of 1.78 EHps and a month-end Bitcoin balance of 410 BTC.