Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
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Re: Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
#2"leaking" is the wrong word here - it implies some sort of inefficiency, process which is not working as well as it needs to. Leaky bucket, leaky faucet...
That's not the case here, that center is __dumping__ heat into environment - it is by design, all that electricity is being converted into the heat. By design, it's enormous electric heater.
Re: Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
#3So I don't have any context for this. The article says it uses as much power as 300,000 homes. Is that a little? Is that a lot? How much does one steel foundry use?
Edit: One steel foundry uses about 3,000 more than that, according to my napkin math
Re: Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
#4So I don't have any context for this. The article says it uses as much power as 300,000 homes. Is that a little? Is that a lot? How much does one steel foundry use? Edit: One steel foundry uses about 3,000 more than that, according to my napkin math
You can multiply your own power bill by 300,000 if money is a more relatable unit.
Re: Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
#5"leaking" is the wrong word here - it implies some sort of inefficiency, process which is not working as well as it needs to. Leaky bucket, leaky faucet... That's not the case here, that center is __dumping__ heat into environment - it is by design, all that electricity is being converted into the heat. By design, it's enormous electric heater.
I wonder if there's enough heat being produced for it to act as a district heating plant.
Re: Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
#6"leaking" is the wrong word here - it implies some sort of inefficiency, process which is not working as well as it needs to. Leaky bucket, leaky faucet... That's not the case here, that center is __dumping__ heat into environment - it is by design, all that electricity is being converted into the heat. By design, it's enormous electric heater.
Not sure what your point is. With POW inefficiency is by design.
Re: Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
#7"leaking" is the wrong word here - it implies some sort of inefficiency, process which is not working as well as it needs to. Leaky bucket, leaky faucet... That's not the case here, that center is __dumping__ heat into environment - it is by design, all that electricity is being converted into the heat. By design, it's enormous electric heater.
Not sure what your point is. With POW inefficiency is by design.
You got the point. It's "by design" - you've both said it.
Re: Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
#8"leaking" is the wrong word here - it implies some sort of inefficiency, process which is not working as well as it needs to. Leaky bucket, leaky faucet... That's not the case here, that center is __dumping__ heat into environment - it is by design, all that electricity is being converted into the heat. By design, it's enormous electric heater.
Not sure what your point is. With POW inefficiency is by design.
a home can leak heat to the environment because of bad insulation. a datacenter doesn't leak heat because leaking is normatively bad.
Re: Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
#9So I don't have any context for this. The article says it uses as much power as 300,000 homes. Is that a little? Is that a lot? How much does one steel foundry use? Edit: One steel foundry uses about 3,000 more than that, according to my napkin math
Home energy usage is knocked down people that don't that don't do anything at home and where almost their energy use is externalized (at places that make the goods they use, or other places where they spend most of their their waking hours).
So it's a useful figure if you want to make a shocking headline. "Uses as much power as infinity of something that uses no power!"
Re: Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cryptocurrency mining center
#10So I don't have any context for this. The article says it uses as much power as 300,000 homes. Is that a little? Is that a lot? How much does one steel foundry use? Edit: One steel foundry uses about 3,000 more than that, according to my napkin math
3,000x would be 2.1 terawatts. That would require about 100 Three Gorges Dam, currently the largest generating station in the world, to power one foundry. Or about 2,100 nuclear power plants of typical size. I think your napkin math might be a bit off.