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Re: [ActiveMining] The Official Active Mining Discussion Thread [Self-Moderated]
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Minor Miner
on 30/01/2014, 15:41:55 UTC
Not to be dismissive, but the chances of that happening are almost non-existent. Even if the chips were coming out of fab right now and there was a board design that was vetted I would be surprised if AMC could get a 1PH mine running by the end of Q2. You're talking about a 2MW datacenter there, probably 3MW with cooling. That's going to be a massive facility and even the capital infrastructure outside the mining hardware doesn't spring up overnight.
Just look at how long it took the 100GH/s mine to ramp up to 500GH/s, and that's with the Bitfury design which is pulling about half the power per GH/s that this 55nm design will if it hits its specs. They started getting hardware online at the end of July/start of August, and hit 500GH/s at the end of the year.
At 16gh/chip, to ramp up production requires approx. 500% less hardware than with bitfury chips, which means it should be possible to ramp up 500% faster.
In order to have this 1-2PH farm within Q2 we would need to use the 55nm chips @ 1.9GH/s.
Given your job Kleeck, what is the cost of setting up a 3,000 KW, running baseloaded power (24/7), data center by June?   It certainly is not going to fit in the "garage" building that is headquarters.