Moe Asnani has been in the weed business for over 13 years. He’s the former owner of two D2 Dispensaries here in Tucson. He even started his own cannabis brand, iLAVA, to make THC-based pain-relief gels.
But recently, he’s set his sights on a new project — converting old cannabis farms into mini data centers.
“For some reason, there’s a lot more cannabis grown in Arizona than Arizonans use,” Asnani said. “And so a lot of folks are getting out of that business, like myself, at least on the cultivation side. But these facilities can potentially be repurposed to be mini data center nodes.”…