Brent Whitehead - Giga Energy

Brent Whitehead is the Co-Founder of Giga Energy. Giga reduces flaring by deploying onsite power generation and bitcoin data centers. Giga focuses on being a vertically integrated flare gas bitcoin mining company by building in-house generators and data centers for capturing flared and stranded gas. Brent comes from an oil background, which led him to a career in the energy space. Brent attended Texas A&M University, where he studied Industrial Distribution.


Session

01-13
13:40
45min
Flare Gas Mining: Decentralization, Emission Reduction, Margin Expansion
David Zell - Bitcoin Policy Institute, Steve Barbour - Upstream Data, Brent Whitehead - Giga Energy, Troy Cross - Professor

What does a flared gas mining operation look like? How is it similar and different to industrial mining? How do the cost structures compare? How big is the TAM for this business model? What kind of environmental impact will this have?

Flare Gas Mitigation
Main Hall