I'll be within day-tripping distance of Lab_Rat, and there have been requests for photo documentation of the LRM datacentres. I'm given to understand that two of the three DCs are visitable. (With the third being in another state, across the country...) If I post a bunch of pictures from these two DCs, will this satisfy those who are asking? Or am I too close to LRM, and too potentially biased?
Why in the world do you need 3 DC's for 17TH?
Because it's NOT just 17TH! 17.7TH is "contracted". There were 23.6 or so TH running before the 2nd batch of bitfury gear came in, which was supposed to be around 150TH, of which about 55% is online judging by LR's comments meaning LRM is running at about 106TH and will grow to about 173 or more TH and if you add in the Monarchs at the low end estimate close to 200TH and at the high end 225TH. If anyone would like to correct those numbers, please feel free, but I feel pretty confident those numbers are fairly accurate.
Starting to question why you'd blindly repeat this 17TH number again and again.