A few days ago, together with a group of people, to visit a Mining Farm.
I'll start by apologizing for the bad photos I took. I have no idea what happened, but the camera underexposed a lot (I usually overexpose all the time), so I had to turn up the exposure a lot and let out a lot of noise.
The farm is located within a private hydroelectric plant.
This plant is equipped with two turbines that can produce up to 700 MW of power.
This is the control room of the hydroelectric power plant.
This farm is situated in a national park.
All around there is an explosion of verdant nature.
As you can see, a family of swans inhabit the area.
He is the owner of the farm that feeds them.
The core business of this farm is the so-called "housing", i.e. renting space in racks for customers' machines.
The far is structured with three main rooms.
The first is dedicated to testing the machines before they are put into production.
During my visit, very few miner were running.
I talked to the owner at length about why he adopted a Routerboard. My interest was to understand his competence well since right now I am writing to you using an RB3011 (the same one I photographed) as a gateway.
In the second room, some Shitcoins are mined. There are still a number of GPU-based working machines.
The heat produced by these GPUs is channeled and sent to a greenhouse. It is currently unused, but in winter, it is heated to about 15° via GPUs.
Also in this room, he showed us some small miners who according to him are the most profitable of the moment. He explained to us that they mine ALEO (none of us knew about this shitcoin) generating a daily profit of over 25 USD with a consumption of about 140 watts.
Finally we arrived at the main hall.
Being in a park, you have to submit to strict noise control.
For this reason, in fact, on the right side of the container, very powerful fans have been installed that throw in a large flow of air which, in addition to regulating the temperature, creating great pressure, completely attenuates the noise.
There are also ventilation louvers on the left, but I don't remember if you explained their specific function.
However, the main hall of this Mining Farm is located in this shipping container.
Entering, you have to be careful at the door, because the high pressure inside pushes it outside with a lot of force.
On the right side, we find a whole wall dedicated to filtering the air that is pumped inside at high pressure.
On the right side, however, we find the entire battery of miners working non-stop.
In this container, no shitcoin are mined, but only bitcoins.
Only one brand of miners was popular in this room.
The consumption of each miner is controlled remotely.
The visit ended with a look at the warehouse where there are old miners waiting to be disposed of or used as spare parts.
The hydroelectric plant plans to cover the river that feeds it with floating solar panels, in order to increase daytime production and reduce the proliferation of algae that are the main source of plant failures.
This visit was very informative and helped me a lot to reflect.
If you have the opportunity to do so, take the opportunity to make a similar visit.