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Do you still keep them at home, did you rent warehouses, did you put them in server racks and move them to data centers, or are you using any other solution? What is the most beneficial way and cheapest electricity long term these days?

I'm planning to build or buy a miner. I will probably store it in my parents basement. They live not far away from my place so outages won't be a problem for me.

At my office. Here government charge a lot for residential electricity usage.

My house basement because it's a lot cooler than outside,in the winter they will go to my apartment so I can have free heating

unfinished basement. Cool in the summer, crack the window in the winter - free heat.

Has anyone researched data centers? Is electricity there capped or you just pay the fee for renting the racks?

To facilitate the inspection and maintenance of the tool, I prefer to keep my miner at home.
The most important obstacle for miner is electricity , I have plan to overcome the problem is by using solar panel and generator.

Server room  ;D ;D ;D

Can you pm me about your solar panel setup? I'm interested in looking for alternative energy as well.

I still keep my lonely miner at home, used to keep them at home when they were 2 full rigs too, sold one because temps were getting too high for my liking.

We made a special "mining room" and keep them there ;)) Temperatures in the room is arround 35°C +/- 2°C.. it depends on the weather.. Gpu's running on 64-70°C 24/7 ;D

basement, very hot and noisy.

What are your tips to lessen the heat of every graphic cards that are on for mining ? , do you guys prefer ventelation or rather to use aircon? , im running msi gtx 960 because it has large heat-pipes i hope it will not last , and i place it in our basement so it wont be affected that much heat of the sun. Next thing is do you pay alot of money for electricity ? .. well my mining rig takes alot of money from me every month. Do you guys have any suggest to lessen the power consumption ? or it will really stay like that high ?

I'm storing my miner in my parent's basement because of low ambient temp (cards run ~55°C), however I'm adapting one storage room in our family company to make small (up to 10 rigs) mining facility.

Power cost is a biggest deal here, I've got something around 0.10-11$ per kWh (thanks god parents have their company at home, so bill goes on company's costs), so right now my monthly electricity bill is around 16-17$ per 1080ti card running on skein (210W ea).

Your best bet is tweaking your card settings (i.e my card does 970mh on 100% tdp - up to 280W from wall, but it can also run 940 on 75% TDP with 210W). You need to decide if it's better for you to have more coins at higher electricity bill (with future possible increase in price of mined coin), or getting less but paying less for them (meaning nearly 'optimal' results).

I'm storing my miner in my room.

Used to mine at home, then rented a place for my miners. Hoping to move up to an light industrial unit soon for even cheaper electricity.

Renting warehouse space.  Commercial property offers some wholesale pricing for bulk electricity which helps.

In the begining my rigs was all around house, almost in every room :)
But now that is imposible :)

Do you own the office business?

At home and of course have a special room to run the mine machine.

basement. Renting a space wouldnt be worth it right now.

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I rent a small commercial space and run the miners in the back of it - the front is my "man cave".

At home, in special room I made, with 24 hours air condition on.

If you don't have many miners, keep them home and calculate your electric bills. If you are at a point where it's cheaper to rent a warehouse than to pay high-rate bills, do that !

 "Move to commercial space" is often dictated by the limit of noise that it tolerable for home mining, or the limit of heat management, or by the limit of AVAILABLE electric to a particular residence - rates are NOT always lower, and sometimes are HIGHER on "small business" rates vs "residential" rates from a particular power company.

We have the majority of ours in a room out in our barn that was renovated for mining purposes. Thankfully space with adequate ventilation/airflow is not an issue for us at this point. We
re nearing the limit electricity wise for the circuit panel out in the barn, so any significant expansion in the future would require either designating a room in the house for mining or add another panel out in the barn.

Finally me and my cousine made a special room for mining rigs :)
5 rigs in the room with room temperature arround 34°C. It went crazy 2-3 weeks ago because of the heat.. Room temperature went up to 43°C..

nothing better then home

Do you have anything set up to exhaust all that hot air outdoors? With good airflow 5 rigs shouldn't make the room quite that hot..... although hot ambient temp here would be ~30C, if you live in a warmer climate it's definitely tougher.

I was wondering same thing. Any advice on efficient A/C units for this purpose? Blow cool air in room on one side and vent hot air out on the other?  Right now my electricity bills are topping $1k and I need to address the heat better bc ny house AC is running 24/7 and I'm gonna burn it out if I keep this up.

@home - free electricity!

Free electricity at home? What kind of dark magic is in play here?  ???

at home but with that much rig i'll rent something asap because its getting way to hot in there.
Even with A/C and blower temp is at 28~35 during summer.
Two weeks ago my old A/C died, the room went to 40+, that was crazy.. lol
Card are at 50-55 for nvidia / 60-65 for amd..

I'm plan on going the route of a basement room with 100% outside air recirculating in warmer times of the year. I just plan on separating the air intake and air output.  Then reroute in the winter for heating the house.

I know some are concerned about summer humidity,,, but i'm not sure that humid climate actually have any negative effect on electronics?   

me, and my friend renting a dedicated room for miners, also we did ventilation system, and we made shelves for rigs
So, you need to pay to get good space for miners, otherways you can't expand your equipment...

Just at home. Non transparent glassed balcony with good airflow from the outside. Even in "hot" summer (no more than 30C) GPU's temperature was no more than 65C. The only problem is input breaker that limits spendable power to miners

Yea and I've also got an 80A 240V electric car charger that I have to also take into account...

I rented a shed with electricity right around my house. Run all the rigs with 2 portable AC units. They run 24/7 and never had one go over 74C.
I started them at the basement but the electricity bill went up$100 month with only 2 rigs and one portable AC unit.
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What's your chip temp and all? Adds more to the electric bill right

i am using 200kWp PV panels combined with 24/7 30kW mining equipment ... i guess after 1 year the solar %tage is going to be not more than 30% ...

At home, in what once used to be me my gym now converted to mini farm. Gym moved to living room. All good.....

what is the most comfortable way to store miners?
Do you still keep them at home, did you rent warehouses? What is the most conventional way and cheapest?

For me, I'd just get a separate room solely for miners only at home, setup a good ventilation Fresh Airflow in and hot Air out, in this way I could easily manage heat and probably noise, What challenge me is the Electrical power lines that needs to do another separate line as I don't like to use the Household lines already in place.

I built launched and finetuned it at home.
Now moving to the storage room of my office with fully automatic ventilation system.

Server room with AC of course, ambient air 21C, rigs in server cases inside a 42U rack, all GPUs below 60C / 30% - 50% fan speed

Guys, how many antminers can handle 50 sqm room with one 1x0,5m window fully opened (no ventilation) and all the antminers outlets pushed outside of the room?
Thank you

i put all miner at my warehouse because we have more asic :), air solution is difficult but finnally we solved it

you better add ventilation or you will bake them.

I have a bunch at a datacenter and keep 60 in 3 houses.  20 per house well ventillated.

In my house since winter is coming and i can use that heat,this way i dont have to use gas for heating

If you put the antminers directly in front of the open windo and the air can blow out, its possible to put about about 10 inside.
But you need another hole or something in the wall to get fresh air ...

We have a similar situation and have 6 s9 blowing out :-)

I hope you own the office or at least pay for the electricity you are consuming.

Anyway to answer the question, i for one am storing my miners at my residential home. This way, i get a free reboot watchdog (our house helper) and at the same time I get to modify and optimize my miner whenever i want. Just make sure that if you're keeping it at home you have safety precautions just in case of fire.

My basement, living in the UK so it's pretty cold in the winter, no need for external cooling. I run on low power limit so it's not that loud.

I am currently relying on my own home in running the mine even though the cost of electricity must be too much but not an obstacle for me to continue to try it out at once there is a very strong conviction to become a successful person will be the main driving factor.

Anyone live in the Florida area, or of similar climate? Thinking of putting my miners into an enclosure and fixing up one of the small "offices" in my barn to store them, just unsure if they would overheat, even with good ventilation. Anyone in these areas posting pics/ideas would be great thanks

I live in texas so yes its no problem but make sure you add a ton of ventillation.  I have 9000 cfm in my 120 square foot room running 30 miners in that house.  2 other houses running 20 each have 6000 cfm

I used to mine in South Carolina (Charleston), so I think I can speak a little about that. In hotter areas ventilation is especially important, it's good to install several fans in wherever you are keeping your miners and they'll run fine(large ones with high CFM are good for low noise, remember to have airflow in and out). Also remember to test for a little bit after you finish setting things up to make sure you truly have everything done right.

I keep them in my parents house. I get free power since they pay for electricity anyway. Gives me an initiative to come and visit them with my kids from time to time and also provide them free heating during winter time.  ;D

we have no basement but I want to hide my miner in the room, okay here because space is great and so can i see it even late night :)

Running ac is an unnecessary added expense. Use exhaust fans and vent it out of the house. Do add dedicated circuit and wires for mining.

Anyone in hotter climates have pictures? Seen a video of a guy in Florida storing his in plywood boxes

I'm in Thailand here, we are in the rainy season at the moment, so ambient temps are around 29 Celcius with high humidity, my chip temps vary between 57 - 62, so far my hashing rate is stable. However in the afternoon when we get to 32 celcius I do turn the AC on. In the hot season, temps 34 - 35 celcius I suppose AC will be a must. They are placed that the hot air vents out of the window.
In a box wouldn't that make it hotter ??

I keep mine in a dedicated room in the basement during the summer time.  At first I was using a 800 CFM exhaust fan, but that created negative pressure in the hole house and I did not want to add an fresh air inlet since the hear and humidity in Virginia is pretty awful in the summer months.  So I installed a high efficiency 2 ton mini split, which does a great job keeping everything cool.  It will pull the room all the way down to 62 degrees if I want, but I set it at 75, and it doesn't have to work that hard.

Now that cold season is approaching, I'm scattering the miners around the house for free heat.  The biggest pain about that is installing 240V outlets everywhere since I'm using Delta 2400W PSUs for almost all my miners, and they only accept 240V.

I just store it in my office :)

Interesting.  I'm running a 10" can fan q max that pulls 900-1023 cfm.  A way to combat the negative pressure is to use an oversized by 2x or more air filter.  After I did this I have just slight negative pressure in the room.  I sealed off my door with window sponge trim so any negative pressure is only isolated in the dedicated office miner room.

http://www.dropbox.com/s/wby0ngva0yp9594/windowfilter_furnace.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2qi59618iypgyx1/10inch_canfan_qmax.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9t6xa90g042zxag/10inch_celing_diffuser.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ivs54ws0cljzeat/10inch_muffler_vent.jpg?dl=0

I keep it at home in the special room where I work, the room has been designed to build a mine.

For the power supply, I use solar panels combined with my own assembled electrical converter, so that the power generated can be maximized.

It is good you can use office space and electricity.

Luckily I have some spare rooms in my home at the moment so I have them here, noise level has been ok, electricity rate is not too cheap though, works out at 0.145 in USD/KW/h