Topic: Help us build a datacenter/warehouse in central WA (Read 728 times)

Hi,

I and some friends of mine in Seattle are getting into medium-scale bitcoin mining, and are exceeding the electrical capacity of our available house and office spaces. We are interested in setting up a warehouse or low-grade datacenter in central WA, maybe in Wenatchee or Quincy, in order to take advantage of the < $0.03/kWh hydro electricity and cheap rents. However, we're concerned that the distance from any of us (2.5 hours driving) combined with our day jobs could make maintenance and installation a nightmare in terms of how much of our time it would take to do so. So we thought we would look for help.

I see a few possible ways in which someone could help us:

1. We could rent a house for the miners and give someone free housing in exchange for providing security and some basic technical assistance keeping the miners running.

2. We could hire someone who lives nearby to help us when minor miner problems arise in the space (like a miner needing to be rebooted) and/or to help with larger installation projects, especially when the mountain passes are snowed in or we're out of town

3. We could collaborate with another bitcoin mining operation in the area to share space, labor, and maintenance costs in order to get a greater economy of scale and less labor per miner.

What we're not particularly interested in is people who want to piggyback their mining equipment on our labor. We currently have better access to capital than to space and labor, so we're not interested in arrangements that involve us doing more work than we would do if we worked alone.

Let me know if anyone thinks they might have a fit.