Senior Legal Counsel, Power & Land at Bitdeer Technologies Group in Austin, TX

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About Bitdeer: Bitdeer is a world-leading technology company for AI and Bitcoin mining infrastructure. Bitdeer is committed to providing comprehensive Bitcoin mining solutions for its customers and building AI computational infrastructure to support the AI revolution. Bitdeer handles complex processes involved in computing such as equipment procurement, transport logistics, data center design and construction, equipment management, and daily operations. Bitdeer also offers advanced cloud capabilities to customers with high demand for artificial intelligence. Headquartered in Singapore, Bitdeer has deployed data centers across multiple countries, including the United States, Norway, Bhutan, and Ethiopia. To learn more, visit https://ir.bitdeer.com/ We are seeking Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR) is looking for an experienced transactional attorney to join our U.S. Legal team in San Jose, California as Senior Legal Counsel, Power & Land. Bitdeer acquires, energizes and builds data center and power infrastructure across multiple U.S. states and in Alberta, Canada. This role owns the legal work that moves a site from a land position to an energized facility: acquisitions, leases and easements; water rights and supply; utility, interconnection and energy management arrangements; long-lead electrical equipment; and the entitlements and regulatory approvals each site depends on. This is a dedicated power and land role in our U.S. legal function, so you will own the portfolio rather than support it. You will work directly with site selection, development, construction, energy and procurement leaders, bring in and direct specialist and local counsel where state and local law requires it, and build the form agreements, diligence standards and obligation tracking that this work depends upon. What you will be responsible for Lead land and site transactions end to end — purchase and sale agreements, ground and build-to-suit leases, options, easements and rights-of-way, title and survey review, title insurance, restrictive covenants, water rights and supply agreements, and post-closing obligations. Negotiate the utility and power arrangements that make a site viable: interconnection and transmission agreements, discretionary and distribution service agreements, substation and shared facilities agreements, energy management and retail supply arrangements, and the financial security, milestone and energization obligations inside them. Advise on interconnection strategy and queue position with transmission and distribution service providers, electric cooperatives and system operators — including ERCOT, PJM and TVA territories and the Alberta market — and on large-load thresholds, study processes and cost allocation. Support site selection and diligence: zoning and land use, entitlements and permitting, environmental review, utility and water availability, and the tax incentive, abatement and special district structures that determine whether a site clears. Lead the land use and entitlement workstream with local counsel — rezoning and text amendments, moratoria, variances, and public hearings — and prepare the business for the public and political dimension of those proceedings. Paper and negotiate procurement of long-lead electrical infrastructure such as transformers, switchgear and substation equipment, including origin representations, substitution and walk-away rights, and compliance with bulk-power-system and trade-control requirements. Partner with the construction team on the interface between site, power and EPC paper, so interconnection milestones, energization dates and construction schedules are consistent across documents rather than negotiated separately. Serve as a legal point of contact for utilities, cooperatives, landowners, developers, and state and local authorities, and select and manage specialist and local counsel in each market on scope, quality and spend. Build the form library and standards for this work — letters of intent, opt