Jolie Kahn opened her session at Mining Disrupt Fort Lauderdale with a short company history. AgriFORCE, she told the room, has its roots in agtech and had recently moved into Bitcoin mining. Mining was her own background, and the company wanted to push into the fintech side of the market without dropping the agriculture business it started with. The plan she laid out joins the two: miners in shipping containers, and container farms next to them that run on the miners' heat.
Kahn, CEO of AgriFORCE, spoke during the March 25–27, 2025 conference. At the time, Bitcoin traded at $87,393. On October 19, 2026 it traded at $82,691.
Agtech Roots, a Move Into Mining
Kahn called the model "sustainable mining." Modular mining units sit beside modular agricultural growing systems, and the heat from one is piped into the other. The pilot project she described is in Ohio, with Bitcoin miners in containers and the heat routed into containers fitted with rack growing systems.
we are taking modular Bitcoin mining units and colllocating them with a tech in the form of modular agricultural growing systems
Jolie Kahn · 0:54
The crop plan starts with microgreens. Red algae comes next, and after that white-tailed shrimp. Kahn left the detail on the shrimp to the company's chief operating officer, an engineer with two PhDs in agricultural engineering, who was in the room but not on stage. She also made a pitch to investors in the audience, calling the stock undervalued in her personal opinion.
The company has a history in greenhouse design and holds patents on several greenhouse designs from earlier in its life. Kahn said AgriFORCE plans to use them now, though the shipping container format is the cheaper route, and the one it prefers because it keeps the business simple.
Two Sites, No Immersion Cooling
AgriFORCE was mining in two places at the time: Alberta and Ohio. Both sites run off the grid on stranded natural gas, which Kahn said is how the company powers all of its operations. Because they are off the grid, she said, the sites do not have to shut down when the grid needs power for cooling people's homes.
We do not have to use immersion cooling.
Jolie Kahn · 2:40
Kahn said the systems do not overheat and run 24/7, twelve months a year. The fleet is S19 J Pro miners, bought when the sites were set up, and the company was in the process of upgrading all of it to newer models.
In Alberta, there is plenty of stranded gas close to the site, and the company sets up near it to use the local conditions. In some places the mining containers are only 20 or 30 feet from the agriculture, so the heat is captured rather than lost. The Bald Eagle project in Ohio works the same way on a somewhat larger scale. Across both sites, Kahn put the count at about 1,200 miners, and said the company was profitable on a site-by-site basis, a first for AgriFORCE.
Miners That Move in a Day
The containers are what make the fleet mobile. With the miners racked inside shipping containers, AgriFORCE can take them wherever the economics are better.
If we have another site that is better suited for the miners that we have, we just unplug, we move it, and we plug it back in.
Jolie Kahn · 3:33
Kahn said a move can be done in a day. That lets the company follow low-priced stranded gas and go wherever it gets the best return at any one time. The container farms follow the same idea: they are plug-and-play, like the miners.
The Indoor Farming Case: $7.80 a Pound Against 50 Cents
Kahn called the indoor farming market the part that sets AgriFORCE apart from its competitors. Her slide showed close to $15 billion in indoor farming in the US, much of it floriculture and nursery stock. She also gave a market size of about $7 billion in 2023. AgriFORCE plans to focus on red algae and microgreens.
Microgreens are the near-term crop because the cycle is short. The turnaround is usually about a week, which Kahn described as rinse and repeat, producing real revenue. Crops can be grown in greenhouses, in shipping containers, or in an insulated section of a large data center.
She was direct about the cost. Conventional outdoor farming, dependent on natural sunlight, is the cheapest. Indoor vertical agriculture, with racked trays, is the most expensive, and it is what AgriFORCE is doing. Her case is that yield and price cover the gap. She also said the system uses no water, or a very low water footprint, so it can run in many climates.
Revenue of about $7.80 a pound versus leafy greens of 50 cents a pound.
Jolie Kahn · 9:59
The power bill for the farms is small, she said. Beyond a few computers and fans, the agricultural facilities are heated only by the mining. The company can also use the excess carbon dioxide to enrich the growing space and raise production.
Collocation, as we say, is a key to success.
Jolie Kahn · 6:55
In Kahn's account, co-location offsets emissions, allows year-round growing, and gives the company a second continuous source of revenue. Revenue, she said, is the focus for shareholders at this stage.
Air Sanitizers for Damp Rooms
Kahn closed the presentation with a second product line that she said fits with indoor farming: air sanitizing devices that release hydroxyl radicals, which bind with molds and other pathogens and neutralize them. Damp indoor growing rooms without proper ventilation can grow a lot of mold, and the devices are meant to prevent that. She said the units are not expensive and are in use in the Caribbean, in hotel rooms and in buildings with sick building syndrome.
Her summary of the company was its IP portfolio and an M&A strategy aimed at stranded natural gas and other low-cost energy, with miners racked on those sites and agricultural systems placed beside them.
Questions on Hydroponics and Fish Water
Asked about hydroponics, Kahn said the company has looked at it. The trouble in a place like Alberta, where winters are very cold, is heating it: hydroponics covers a bigger surface area than vertical farming. She said it is doable, but more likely in warmer climates.
A second question asked whether water from a fish farm could be circulated through the system. Kahn said it is possible. The company's chairman and its chief operating officer both have experience in aquaculture, she said, and the idea is under discussion, probably for the following year.
Mining Disrupt 2027 runs March 22–24 in Irving, Texas.