Quote from: Wesly on March 31, 2014, 02:14:15 AM

Quote from: smoothrunnings on March 30, 2014, 07:40:41 PM

Have you every bought co-location space in your life to store your own servers? They charge you per-circuit and not for the power you use. There is at least one state in the US that has the lowest power costs out of all the other states that would be a good place for setting up cloud mining sites. There was a story recently on YouTube of a guy who setup his own mining in this state; which they wouldn't name; in a co-location, he was making 8 million a week in Bitcoin mining and was using 1mw of power. (Yes..Mega Watt)

That's funny, because I was going to ask you the same thing. They don't care about power as they usually give you a set amount of power depend on the amount of rack spaces you are leasing: typically 20-amp 220-V for a full 42U rack, with only 16-amp usable = 3.3kW, enough to power a whopping one 3TH miner. You can't plug any more equipment in the rack and power it from the same circuit as it will overload and trip the circuit breaker. You will have to pay additional fee to get more power in, typically at least $200+ per additional 20-amp circuit and that's without any A+B redundancy power feeds. That's right for power redundancy, you will have to pay another $200 for 20-AMP of standby power that you cannot use. Otherwise if one of your circuit went out even for just a split second (due to power failure/UPS/breaker), you will now be running twice the power on the second circuit thus tripping the breaker on that circuit and all your equipment is shut down... How do I know? I was responsible for relocating all of my last company's servers from the various offices into a colocation with redundant power feeds from the power company, backup diesel generators, redundant climate control, redundant data circuit, secure access, etc.. I shopped around extensively and it is not cheap. My current employer has almost 1000 servers at their off-site data center and they spent several millions per years in data center costs. That's not even counting the salary of the staffs necessary to support such a large DC operations.

Sounds like your employer needs to switch to a virtualize solution so they don't have a 1000 physical servers spending millions and also start running their equipment at 200 volts to reduce their amperage, not to mention 200V is cleaner than 120V.

We are completely virtualized at work with about 500 servers cross 3 data centers, about 5 physical servers and a petabyte EqualLogic SAN.