We're repurposing over 96% of mining energy to heat homes and businesses, making it economically feasible for the city to move off natural gas and prevent 2000 tons of CO2 from being emitted to atmosphere each year. I would say that's pretty sustainable 🤷🏻♀️
Discussion
What happens to the excess heat during the summer months? How are miners being cooled?
We size our digital boilers to the baseload heating needs of district energy systems (heat needed on the hottest days of the year). Even in the summer hot water is needed for showers, dishes, laundry etc.
So all of your systems use water and boilers, even to heat air? Are the miners kept hot enough to consistently boil water? What happens when there isn’t enough demand to keep them cool?
Do you have a picture of these setups btw?
They are immersion systems colocated on district energy lines (highly insulated underground pipes that deliver heating and cooling to entire city blocks, university and hospital campuses, etc).
They do not boil water but heat water to temps exceeding antimicrobial thresholds.
This is a 3 x 400kW setup :)
I guess it’s better than straight up wasting the heat, but I’m still skeptical, and crypto mining certainly isn’t a sustainable practice.
What temperature does the water reach?