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?

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

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Hi Endlessa,

I ran your thoughts by our top engineer and wanted to share with you the following response:

Your thoughts here are all valid, and indeed, likely correct or improvements.  In fact, there's nothing I would even disagree with or argue against, and most of these are things that I myself have considered and either brought up or opted to deliberately not mention.  There are a couple of mitigating factors that you may not be aware of:

#1 - The exhaust is all very high up, about 70 feet with a colossal amount of total cubic feet to distribute heat.  As you no doubt know, heat rises, such that even in short distances the ambient temperature difference between floor and ceiling can be high.  This will strongly work in our favor by causing a large pressure differental between the heat exhausts and the cool intakes(down low) even without fans.  The question will be how much, and that is what we are going to find out; it is very difficult to calculate with all the added variables.

#2 - Hot spots.  We actually have a *lot* of control over the power and heat density of our equipment.  We can respond to hot spots not only by adjusting cooling, but also by adjusting miner's physical locations and/or densities, something datacenters cannot do.

#3 - We are specifically not doing things that datacenters do for a lot of reasons.  While it is easy to look at this situation and come up with improvements to efficiency, much more difficult is pricing out the total cost of various options, including labor, later adjustments, failure rates and scenarios, and regulations(Raised floors aren't actually cheap, especially not if built per code), and making the right decision.  That isn't to say that your ideas are wrong, or that our process is the best.  There are just a lot of things that go into the conclusions.  Every large scale Bitcoin mine I am familiar with(many) has been built for far less than even cheap datacenters, even after accounting for inefficiencies and later improvements needed.

Drastically changing our approach so late would cause us to not launch on our promised deadlines for our numerous signed customers.  Ultimately though, it doesn't matter.  We won't be forced to- we are working with an industry expert with a very large amount of industry cooling experience across lots of industrial and commercial setups, including datacenters.  Our agreements are such that they are on the hook- REALLY on the hook, not just some legal we'll-sue-you crap- for any inadequacies of the cooling.  With no upper limit on the cost- if they found that a raised floor was necessary, they'd be on the hook for it.  Conversely, they made the design decisions regarding this after carefully evaluating the costs.  I've reviewed their design carefully(With your same thoughts in mind) and confirmed that any cooling inadequacies that occur can be fixed by scaling and building a few cost-effective components.  We are intentionally launching in the dead of winter which will give us ample time to experiment and improve before peak temperatures arrive.  We already have improvements planned and specific measurements that will tell us which improvements we need.  We also have some climate advantages with our particular setup specifics that work in our favor.

tl;dr: I agree with your thoughts, but it isn't necessary as others are on the hook to ensure temps are appropriate, and plans are in place.

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.

Wow I'm surprised, you have nailed some of the issues our engineers were scratching their heads over. We have a solution, wait until cooling is fully built and I'll post some pics.

New Picture up. We powerwashed the shelving today. Time to put in circuits!

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We power washed the shelves today. Time to put in circuits!

95% hydro, with a little bit of wind.

You can have miners sent directly to our hosting facility.

Hi All: we have new photos up of the data center here: http://www.asicspace.com/pictures-of-our-data-center/

Our prices depend on how far into the future you'd like to pay in advance, as well as your volume. Send me a PM.

We have 5k amps of primary switchgear. Clearly we aren't fully using it right now.

Thank!

We have power coming in at 480V 3 phase which we wire to 20A 208V outlets after the power passes through our transformer and panels.

We are doing hot/cold aisle. Our engineers assure us the high ceilings and concrete will do a lot of the work dissapating the heat for us.

No. Lots of concrete in this building, very good for heat dissipation.

It's easy to prevent dust with filters.
We have CCTVs with fire detectors, as well as temperature and pressure sensors. Most importantly, everything is being done professionally and 100% to code.

In fact, we put on our blog our engineer's critique of the design of that mine in Thailand that burned down. Check it out here: http://www.asicspace.com/blog/thai-bitcoin-mine-analysis

We're not Tier 2 because we don't have a UPS/Generator. We do have two ISPs with dual redundancy built into every aspect of the networking. Our power grid is very stable as it's hydroelectric, and power outages are very rare in our area.

We do have a backup transformer in storage in case anything happens to our current transformer.

If you're interested in being a customer or investor, PM me.

It's the same reason you want your miner to be making more than it costs in electricity: you need that margin to cover the initial capital expense. In your case, it's the miner, in our case, it's an expensive data center meeting the needs of a speculative market.

Also, hosting in WA less than a year ago cost $200/kw/mo, then Hashplex came along and offered $100. I'm sure it's still headed downwards.

We've been consistently ahead of schedule the entire build and are pushing hard.
Since it's winter there's less work for contractors so they're swarming to finish our site instead.
The last thing we have scheduled is inspection on the 29th of December.

UPDATE 12/29/2015

The owner of the data center as shown in the pictures below was unable to cool the space in an efficient or timely manner and we therefore were forced to move.
Our new facility is in Quincy, WA.

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Hey guys, I thought I'd give y'all a sneak peak of the Bitcoin mine we're building.
I'm excited for when we'll open our doors for hosting your miners January.

If you have any questions about the build let me know!




















UPDATE 12/16/2015:

We have moved from the location seen in the above pictures. We moved because the owner of the facility as seen in the above pictures was not able to cooling for sufficient for good operation of mining equipment in a timely manner as he was contractually obligated to do.

We now currently are 50 miles away at a 1MW mine in Quincy, WA.