History of garage mining in Russia

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Watch a short video about private data centers for mining in Russia. The quality of ASIC containers is described and shown in great detail.
The price is 5.4 Russian rubles or 0.061 dollars per kilowatt. This is an expensive price, but not in Siberia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zl6A3rH1v8&

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It is curious that in many countries where electricity is cheap, mining is "illegal", while in countries where this activity could be done without problems, it is precisely the energy prices that make it impossible. In Italy, for example, we have an average price of around $0.22 per kW

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Each company has a contract for a certain power consumption and their data cents are well designed and protected. Although I heard that in Europe data centers are burning. The last major fire was in a large data center in Strasbourg in 2021.

If you read too much Russian propaganda you will hear that
- all datacenters in Europe are faulty
- after five minutes there is no power in all all datacenters in Europe
- after five minutes all datacenters in Europe have burned down
- after five more minutes there are no datacenters in Europe as we are too poor to host them
- and the end of the show there is no Europe as the Russian army has conquered Portugal last month

When it comes to reality:
https://bitnodes.io/nodes/all/countries/1d/
https://bitnodes.io/nodes/all/asns/1d/

It's one thing to have cheap electricity in your garage it's a different thing when we talk datacenters.

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Each company has a contract for a certain power consumption and their data cents are well designed and protected. Although I heard that in Europe data centers are burning. The last major fire was in a large data center in Strasbourg in 2021.

If you read too much Russian propaganda you will hear that
- all datacenters in Europe are faulty
- after five minutes there is no power in all all datacenters in Europe
- after five minutes all datacenters in Europe have burned down
- after five more minutes there are no datacenters in Europe as we are too poor to host them
- and the end of the show there is no Europe as the Russian army has conquered Portugal last month

When it comes to reality:
https://bitnodes.io/nodes/all/countries/1d/
https://bitnodes.io/nodes/all/asns/1d/

It's one thing to have cheap electricity in your garage it's a different thing when we talk datacenters.

What propaganda, man? We're talking about mining.
These are not Russian sources

OVHcloud rebuilds Strasbourg data center on site of 2021 fire
New facility keeps batteries and electrical plant separate from the data hall
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ovhcloud-rebuilds-strasbourg-data-center-on-site-of-2021-fire/

Investigation report
located in Strasbourg (67) on March10, 2021.
On the fire in the OVH datastorage center
https://regmedia.co.uk/2022/06/10/ovh_report.pdf

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Probably the fire of the mining equipment in the garage occurred due to an overload (this is mentioned in the article) in the electrical network. In general, this is not at all surprising, because garages are not designed for such power consumption (20-30 kW/hour). Cheap electricity will encourage the formation of such small mining farms in garages in the future, and this will lead to similar fires discussed in this topic. Greed and the desire to save on electricity led to the loss of 9 ASICs, which, by the way, costs not so little money. The conclusion is quite simple: it is necessary to prepare the appropriate technical base for mining (permissible load limit on electrical networks, fire protection and fire extinguishing system, etc.). Just curious, was the heat generated from 9 ASIC units enough to heat this garage?

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Probably the fire of the mining equipment in the garage occurred due to an overload (this is mentioned in the article) in the electrical network. In general, this is not at all surprising, because garages are not designed for such power consumption (20-30 kW/hour). Cheap electricity will encourage the formation of such small mining farms in garages in the future, and this will lead to similar fires discussed in this topic. Greed and the desire to save on electricity led to the loss of 9 ASICs, which, by the way, costs not so little money. The conclusion is quite simple: it is necessary to prepare the appropriate technical base for mining (permissible load limit on electrical networks, fire protection and fire extinguishing system, etc.). Just curious, was the heat generated from 9 ASIC units enough to heat this garage?

In a garage in Russia, no one will be allowed to consume such a volume of electricity, so any garage mining will be subject to violations. Some miners manage to run a separate cable into their garage. The garage can be ventilated, so heat is not a problem, but noise is audible.
In such cases, all fire reports are the same. There will be no serious investigations unless people are harmed.

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The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia has calculated new electricity tariffs from July 24 = from 6.73 rubles to 7.33 rubles in Moscow. 1 dollar costs 91 rubles.
https://rg.ru/2023/11/21/svet-v-koridore.html
In Moscow, with such tariffs, it will soon be unprofitable to mine coins at home because tariffs for business are even cheaper due to the large volume of consumption. But in other regions of Russia, prices for individuals are several times cheaper.

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Check out the video. Some miners still manage to bring 8 kilowatts of power to the balcony, but now they no longer use video cards, but ASICs.
A large box with a dragon, this is a noisebox for ASIC. The dimensions are huge, but it requires mining so that the ASIC does not overheat.
https://t.me/Info4atlanin/9793