ALCOA NEARS DEAL TO SELL NY SMELTER TO BITCOIN MINER
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Alcoa Corp. is in advanced negotiations to sell a dormant smelter site in upstate New York to Bitcoin mining firm NYDIG. The deal marks another shift of industrial real estate toward cryptocurrency operations.
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