Quote from: el_rlee on March 08, 2015, 10:25:08 AM

Quote from: mazedk on March 08, 2015, 09:53:15 AM

Quote from: itod on March 08, 2015, 09:27:36 AM

Quote from: Searing on March 08, 2015, 05:54:52 AM

...the knc Jupiter you see in the pics is already a door stop...

So many turned-off miners everywhere. I don't understand why you people are not selling this turned-off hardware, there are places with some dirt-cheap electricity who will surely be interested, it's a shame all that hashing power to be off when it can be of use to the network. The electricity price and difficulty very, very likely will not go down enough for this hardware to be turned on again at their current locations, so selling is a gain for everyone, or I'm missing something?

Even if one had free power, potential profit would quite possibly be ruined by shipping costs of things that heavy.

Creating capacity is expensive and a farm with mixed old hardware is much of a bother.
If you already spend a lot of money on a transformer, cooling, power distribution, factory hall, etc. You want nice, new hardware.

not necessarily.

say you had a 100kW facility in 2014. Its likely filled now if you had cheap power.
in 2015 you build a second location that makes improvements over the first (evap cooling, 1MW, different power distribution method).
In 2016 it may be a new business altogether. I dont think we are far from 600V miners that ship in cooling tanks or modular pallets/containers designed for high-density, 0.1w/GH equipment