Topic: Pics of Huge Hosting Mine Under Construction, (Dec 2015 Update: We've moved) - page 19. (Read 54168 times)

The updates are awesome.  I'll be interested in seeing more pics for sure as the finishing touches are made.

Are there any plans to allow tours for the hardcore interested?  I visit family up there quite often and would view an opportunity like I did when I visited the BTC ATM installed near me (Mountain View, Ca) - Completely unspectacular but awesome as hell.

I'm not dedicated to the notion...; )

We don't accept miners which don't have power factor correction in their PSUs.

The power!! You gonna try power factor correction?  Curious to if a mine runs a capacitive power factor.

Installing transformers now.
We have eight of them.
Check it out:

lol. those pictures looks great man, gz about it!!!


yeah i want to know it too

Btw diff will grow up soon, as i suspect

That sounds like a cool idea. If someone wanted to partner with us, they could send us a pallet, then resell them at a markup, I'd be happy to transfer ownership of the miners to the buyer.

Sorta like a group buy. You buy a pallet of miners, then sell them individually for a small markup. Both Spondoolies and Bitmain have bulk orders for sale. I know I'd pay a little extra to know you already have it in stock and can fire it up immediately.

Yeah something like that, but it'd be even easier if you can care about all that logistics
and just quote some total price. Than I can pay you X $ and have an s4 (or
whatever) running from jan 1st without messing with the antminer shop, having the UPS guy
call me when he cant find your factory, all that stuff..
Probably that's asked too much and you're not interested in retailing miners, though..
Edit: Even better would be the spondoolies 15xsp20 pack, but they ship without psu..

I'm not quite sure what you're asking - but I'm interested.

Have you considered purchasing a miner like the antminer s4 which has a PSU included and shipping it directly to our facility?

Hi asicspace,
I'm from europe so it's quite a hassle for me to organize miners, suitable psu's and probably accesories etc to be shipped to your place. Do you plan to offer all-inclusive packs, which contain one unit of a popular
miner model and, say, 12 months electricity? After that, the customer can decide to have it shipped
home, put to garbage etc. That would be really interesting for me.

pretty empty.

how mw ventilation do you use for how much mw mining gears?

Yeah I figured cost effective measures and timeline were the constraining factors lol aren't they always   You're right, in that you have plenty of time before the external temps (I think the worry starts around july).  There will be some low hanging fruit you can do as the heat encroaches.  Those metal doors would be priority to seal and insulate, that would be my first target in the coming months.  Running Insulation to the thermocline (heat/cool barrier, should be somewhere around the dark line on the concrete in your latest photo slightly above where the cool air outputs are located.  Both easy and cost effective solutions. 

Also an added bonus, those overhead, what I assume are wire runs, frames would work well for dropping vents above cold aisles if thermal turbulence prevents airflow.  Shouldn't be an overly expensive solution, if you find it necessary later.

I would suggest buying a bunch of cheap digital thermometers, if you don't already have a more sophisticated solution.  1 per rack section and a clipboard patrols/recording (I love low tech solutions) should let you moderately trouble shoot your arrangement.

Great timing on hitting this in the winter It will give you plenty of time to observe heat distribution while you still have plenty of cooling bandwidth before summer.  I hope some of this is useful for you and wish you the best of luck.  If you ever want to bounce ideas, just send me a PM.  I love this stuff.  Keep up the good work.

Here is an idea for you, in this video check out how our data center Cold Isle setup is done at economic cost..  We use standard clear acoustic ceiling tiles to contain the cold air from the raised floor and distribute hot air up high to be drawn in by two liebert downdraft 30 Ton AC Units.

http://www.mystarpoint.com/datacenter/

What do you think?

Hey, I climbed up a ladder and took this pic. Nice angle, eh?

5000 AMP SWITCH gear you boys are serious.  480VAC.. 600VAC is where it is at!! GO CANADA!! lmao. 

Thanks for the pics looks good!!

Yes we have coverage for fire, theft, and electric surges for the full market value of all our customer's equipment in the data center. We're insured through Farmers.

Please tell me you have looked into insurance, just incase, if so was it hard to get insurance?
Your putting alot of hard work and money into his and i wouldn't want to see it go up in smoke like the mining facility in Thailand.
These guys had NO insurance!
http://www.coindesk.com/gallery-fire-destroys-thai-bitcoin-mining-facility/

so I assume then the venting on the side is an attempt to use force airflow for cooling.  Each pass over a hot aisle will dilute the cooling to the center most rows.  In essence you'll be fighting thermal dynamics and having to over cool (and waste much more energy) attempting to reduce hot spots in the center.  Higher hardware failures and reduced performance (some hardware will under-clock itself to reduce temp) in the center of the center aisle (or other areas, depending on how the forced flow venting is positioned).  While concrete does have decent thermal conductivity, unless the air you are pumping is warmer than the external temperature, it will actually warm the air coming from the wall adjacent venting (see 4th photo on your initial post). Essentially your venting will be cooling the wall first, then the equipment. Furthermore, the first hot aisle will create thermal turbulence in cooling airflow, thus giving inconsistent results to your cooling attempts.  This is why most data centers have moved toward something like what's in this simple image:



now I'm not trying to troll or dig on you, more so trying to give potential improvements, but this would be an issue better dealt with prior to having hardware on the racks which will only create migration complexity in the future.  The user experience to watch out for, if this is the going forward scenario, is constant complaints of "I have 4 identical units with 1 (located in a possible hot spot) that consistently under performs."

Also, another consideration, when in a heterogeneous hardware situation (I assume you'll be hosting many different brands) and user controlled overclocking your thermal zones will be in constant flux.  I just feel concern that this will create the dreaded whack-a-hot-spot situation many early data centers  experienced.  Without a view of your actual cooling plan, I can only go by what I see in the photo.


I too would love to see these.

Edit: Great resource if your looking to leverage some free advise  http://hightech.lbl.gov/datacenters.html