Binance is looking to consolidate more bitcoin mining hashrate to its pool in Russia and the Central Asia region.

The world’s largest crypto exchange is deploying a physical server node for its pool at BitRiver, the largest bitcoin mining hosting provider in Bratsk, Russia. The move would give miner owners at BitRiver who choose to switch to Binance a better connection and direct route to its mining pool, the two firms said in an announcement Friday.

In return, Binance would gain exposure and access to customers who run their machines at BitRiver, which currently operates mining facilities at a capacity of 70 megawatt (MW) out of a full capacity of 100 MW.

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According to the Bitcoin mining map compiled by the Center for Alternative Finance, affiliated with the University of Cambridge, the current monthly average hashrate from miners in Russia is at 6.08% of the network’s total, with a slight growth from 5.93% that was reported in September 2019.

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Similarly, miners in Kazakhstan are estimated to contribute to 3.14% of Bitcoin’s total hashrate, which has grown from 1.42% that was recorded in Q3 last year. Meanwhile, the map shows China’s average Bitcoin hashrate dominance has dropped slightly from 75% recorded in Q3 2019 to now 71%.

Currently, nine out the 10 biggest bitcoin mining pools by hash rate are either home-grown companies in China or owned by crypto exchanges with strong roots in the Chinese market.

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If assuming on average customers at BitRiver are using relatively more state-of-the-art bitcoin mining machines, like Bitmain’s AntMiner S17s or equivalent models with an efficiency level of about 50 watt per terahash second (W/T), BitRiver’s bitcoin mining farms could boast a total hashrate of over 1,000 petahash per second (PH/s).

While that level of hashrate may only account for about 1% of the total computing power on Bitcoin, the deal underscores Binance’s strategy of absorbing bitcoin miners in different regions – with somewhat aggressive pricing plans since its launch – into its exchange functions, including spots, futures and margin trading.

“Binance Pool offers a highly competitive fee structure to institutional-scale miners, who are the customers of our data center,” Igor Runets, CEO at BitRiver said in the announcement.