New Crypto Mining Facility Buildout Tour - 900 ASIC miner facility
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Complete tour of my 3rd generation mining facility, with improvements over the previous two facilities. More information available at my website blockoperation...
This video is great. Thank you! Slowly getting through all your videos, I'm in the process of starting my own 400amp farm and the info here is great.
Nice build!!! Hope you do another video to talk about logistics & costs of the build!!! Would be a great follow-on!
Would def watch that video! Really interested in this build.
I'm stoked that you're posting videos again! The facility looks great! Probably time time to start prepping my miners for the new season.
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Good to see you again. Great job, congrats on your new mining facility.
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Looking good - are you going to Sheetrock all the walls also so many expensive sub panels disconnects and Extention cords everywhere .
That was neat. It looks like a super sized operation from your older videos/last location. Thanks so much for sharing this information it is very fun to watch and learn.
Finally. Took forever to find the big boys mining videos
Thank you for the tour, fresh build with lessons learned is great to see. I am also a former submariner, building out our own 1.5 MW mint, referenced your earlier videos to guide the design. I have a good handle on the equipment, air flows and power matrices, seams the networking side is the most likely area to encounter stumbling blocks at scale, recently got a Cisco CCIE consultant involved. Please comment about the LAN matrix, router and switch hardware you chose for a 900 miner buildout, spares distribution / access levels, and IP addressing.
For the larger build we are also hosting some miners from other people, which I like to lock down in their own subnet/VLAN. Firewall is a Cisco Meraki MX64, main switch is a Meraki MS120-24, access switches are Cisco SF250-48 48-Port 10/100 Smart Switch. I have 32 VLAN's set up, put 3-4 switches per VLAN, segment network into /24's, and use Meraki as DHCP server. The Meraki firewall is set up to failover to backup internet, and also for remote access VLAN. Using 12 static IP addresses from provider and can port forward to management machines, which are usually dedicated PC running Awesomeminer
I use the meraki firewall for port forwarding, as a layer 3 device, and for creating firewall rules to prevent hosted VLANs from access to any other VLAN/subnets
have a spare firewall and switch at the place. Definitely useful to get a networking consultant involved, but don't let them recommend anything too expensive. Low end 10/100 switches is all your need, and the GUI interface on the SF-250 is really good
@@BlockOperations I highly recommend checking out Fortinet Fortigates. Basically, we are using the same L3 design as your mentioned above, but much better security and performance vs meraki.
So glad to see you’re back! I’ve learned the most from your content and started mining a year ago based on what I learned from you. Went from an S9 to now 4 rigs which means I need to get them out of the house now lol. A business partner and I are looking to build a small farm here in north GA, in your neck of the woods! Great work man!
Awesome build out
So many ideas to improve our set up here from this video
Beautiful, simple and intelligent design. Nice work indeed.
Incredible. I can’t imagine what it cost to do that.
I like it, may i have the detailed budget and size of the facility please? D.M looking for a same factory.
Wow - been a while! Very encouraging to too this
truth about cooling is that you just need the equivalent of running them outdoors
Glad to see you back
Very interesting video. If you have a power blackout. What is the plan? What is the resilience of your electrical infrastructure? I can guess that from the video the electrical infrastructure is an N system, am I correct?
Hi,
i am watching all your Videos and getting a lot of Inspirations.
At the moment i am Building 10ft Mining-Container.
Can you please tell me wich airfilter do you use?
Also what type of large fans do you use?
Regards
Dennis
Glad to see some killer content again! Thank you for bringing this to us to see!
Love the facility. It's a nerd's dream. Out of curiosity, do you expect to turn a profit with the current setup? I can't imagine that those miners will earn enough throughout their economic life to cover the cost of construction. I'm imagining that you view this initial hardware run as an investment in the facility and a means to get that sunk cost paid for in order to profit with future equipment. I just wanted to hear your take on it because I've been looking into building a crypto farm and keep coming back to the realization that your first run is pretty much just to recuperate costs and position you to profit in the future. Thanks for the video and any feedback!
PS. Cable management my dude! With all that wood, you can just use the leftover copper from the wiring as staples!
It is a longer term investment, for sure. But if the crypto cycle goes through another rise as I expect it to, then with good management, we could recoup the costs of the facility within a few years.
He lives!
Awesomeness!!
Hey bud! Great and clean job. I have been following you from a Long time :). Keep It up
very cool
welcome back! missed your vids
I don't like asic you can have 8 GPUs in your house but try 4 asic, total centralization.
Still congratulations on the facility, and thank you for video
Looks Amazing
Sorry for all the questions. You were one of the reasons I got started. Your blog had details others lacked. I'm close to finishing a buildout now, has taken more than a year. When you say fireproof, do you mean to coated wood with intumescent paint or clear coat? Which intumescent mix did you use?
I just buy the wood already fireproofed - that's what the county fire inspector required.
No problem on the questions - best of luck with your buildout!
personally I prefer my setup... which is unique... mine is portable and with minimum build impact... no pipe racks, no receptacles, three phase, and some other secret sauce.. Ramblin Wreck!
I just found this great vid. What were the buildout costs?
Buen día desde mexico, una pregunta en este momento que asic puedes comprar por 500 dolares, y cual seria su rentabilidad si tienes acceso a electricidad gratuita. Gracias
Fantastic!!
Which Asic Miners did you get?
Recently bought some used Antminer S9 (now running braiins), used Antminer L3+, and used Innosilicon A9. My partners have also purchased Antminer S17's
Solid plan!!
All the best!
@user name taken That's wonderful! Very happy for your success!! I agree it is challenging and not easy, and it is very impressive that you and your wife did all the construction and electrical. I also agree running lean is important, and need to keep a financial reserve for the downtimes.
Great to hear from you again Rolf, you have been busy it seems. Have you still got your other large installation or have you moved that gear to this new one? What coin/s are you mining at the moment? Cheers and thanks again for showing what is possible in a bearish market. Inspirational.
Thanks Craig! I still have the other installation. Mostly mining BTC, BTC, LTC, ZEC, and ZEN at all locations
What's your average cost per kwh? Seems like a really nice buildout but with gobs of upfront costs. What do your break-even figures look like?
Right now the electric cost is 5.7 cents per kwhr. There are a lot of upfront costs - we plan on mining in this facility for many years.
@@BlockOperationsGood luck do you guys!
Rolf, I have a technical question for you. your fans pull in 160,000 cfm. I count 72 of the washable filters... I assume they are the 20 inch by 25 inch filters I see on graingers website... since all these filters let in less air than the fans are pulling, that makes negative pressure right? does that have any adverse affect on the fans? ive heard some fans have a function that will turn themselves off it doesn't have enough air to pull on, thank ya kindly!
The fans have a graph that shows actual airflow based on differential pressure. These industrial fans are designed to operate at high differential pressure. The filters are operating at their upper limit of air velocity throughput.
Block ops is baaaack!!!
Glad to have you back. What earmuffs are those?
some cheap noise canceling earphones
The cold aisle isn’t airtight but you don’t have reverse airflow. Is exhaust slightly higher cfm?
yes due to intake filters exhaust ends up being higher CFM. We actually got reverse airflow on some areas so we placed HVAC paneling on open spaces
Where did you get your filters from. I'm getting a little annoyed about not being able to find large enough washable airfilters. I'm debating just building my own -- I mean, it's just several layers of mesh/expanded-metal right?
that's exactly what it is. For the next round I am working with a local HVAC company that has a machine shop to build them.
Welcome back!!! Great tour! Did you still keep your old location?
yes, still have the old location with about 500 miners. But moved out of my first location with 30 miners - lease was up and did not need to renew
How many of each antminers do you have?
S9, L3+, A9 and S17?
enough that mining can pay the bills for my family :-)
What kind of miner management software are you using? Are you using something like awesome miner or some other blend of software?
I use awesomeminer software for monitoring and control of the ASIC miners. I also use zabbix for network and server monitoring. For updating braiins OS miners, I have bash scripts written in linux. At some point I intend to have zabbix call bash scripts for better miner control
I've been having trouble finding high-speed washable filters. What type are you using here? And are they working as desired?
They were built into the vents that I ordered from the HVAC company. These were built by Greenheck
now we are officially: bulls on parade
How many ASICs per 30A PDU ?
Is it a residential area
What fans and filters are those?
they are from greenheck
Why not use 3 phase pdu? You probably have a reason, would like to know your take on it. Thanks
Standard data center 3 phase PDU are really expensive and have way too many outlets and features for high density power. I have not been able to find a source for 3 phase PDU optimized for mining.
Why don't you use immersion cooling?
because it is expensive, i believe
@@meteor8076 but it's more efficient
I like to keep my costs low and make maintenance easy. I gain efficiency through size, lower electricity rates, and no employees.
@user name taken The immersion cooling needs less installation space and has no maintaining costs, no noise production, higher hash rates are possible (up to 20-30% per miner).
@user name taken ...hmm, seems to be controversial!
I have grin coin and i need to convert it to btc. Any help?
What's your cost per kwh??
Soooo.... why did u waste money on a PDU + 30 amp receptacle? Which by the way is limited to 12amp per bank...... ?? And 208 plus 3 phase?? Sounds like a lot offffffffffffff wassssssteeeeeeee. U were offered options? Like 240? Standard dual breaker?? Mining experts? Mining consulting?. Please. U should get a better electrical knowledge and understanding 1st
You are correct, it is 12 amps per bank. There is some waste there. There are lots of different ways to do the electrical. 480VAC to 415 VAC to 3 phase to the PDU at 80 amps is also an option. Depends on the size of the buildout you are doing, time to market and buying abilities.
There are lots of reasons to make different choices on the electrical side of things. Difference of style is not wrong, it is just different.
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Block Operations , I’m sure 10/2 wire cost peenies more compared to 12/2. Ohh wait it’s double the price... and PDUs are mad cheep too they only cost what $300 each, and when u say “code compliant “ u do realize it’s only a receptacle thats mounted to the structure permanently not extensions etc... you be better off running 2 20 amp 12/2 lines and a $11 dual receptacle and if u really like that PDU style plug then u can buy an “extension cord”
sounds like you have all the answers. Thanks for sharing!
Be scrap metal shortly never get your money back
youre sure?
@@Daniel-uf7tv yes very sure
@@garyalcorn3831 dont think so 😂
I think he is making a decent amount of money right now
Bitcoin mining will die, too energy-consuming
you´re sure?