Quote from: shangri on April 28, 2014, 07:18:13 PM

Quote from: antirack on April 28, 2014, 09:39:40 AM

My Russian may be a bit rusty, but a total container (without ASICs) from Allied Control is much less than $1 million, not the stated $1.2 to $1.5 million in your post.

As far as I know the Asicminer Gen-3 chips (BE 200) in a 2-3PH container as finished mining solution is less than $900/TH and that includes everything, including power, networking, delivery, etc. The miner needs to plugin power and internet on the outside and the mining can begin. The discussion of air cooling vs. immersion cooling is obsolete, it is a matter of delivery.

ok. 6 rack 3*1*1~1,2=3~3,6 m^3. high density, filling 70%, arround 5,4~6,48 m^3. 1 liter $ 50. 270000$-324000$ only liquid.
V-cooler 8 pieces around 150000$.
6 Rack, container, pumps, fire system protection and other parts 200000$
salary workers: 10000-15000$.
Total minimal price around 630000 $ without profit Alliedcontrol.
1400 kW per one container 40 ft. Power consumption AM BE200 0,73 from the wall, if we use high efficient PSU compuware (with lead time 8-12 week

) around 1,9 PH\s. We need 192000 $ only on PSU. 1,9 PH * 0,49 $ per GH\s = 930000 $ only chip. We need order electronic components, PCB, smd, router, cable. around 0,18 $ per Ghash (342000 $)
around 1100 $\th without profit alliedcontrol. Or 0,45 $ only for cooling system without profit alliedcontrol. If you have estimate calculate you can show it.

AC has a follow up document to the white paper, all these numbers are in there. You can ask for it.

The containers include all that, power, networking, servers, monitoring, cooling etc (it's not just cooling alone). If you ask maybe you could buy single components, or without some of them. But the point of all this is to get a total turnkey solution instead of building your own, no? A container is a building to which you connect power and internet. You can also put it in an old warehouse.

Say you get your 2PH online when the difficulty is 20000 million (few months from now?). That's a gross of BTC 1,510 (or >$705,000 @ today's $467/BTC) in the first month. How many mining boards and how much of a 1.4MW mine can you build in one month? When AM gen-4 is out you can upgrade in a day, resell your container, or move it to where electricity is cheaper (probably not a concern in Russia). If you don't like AM you can use another chip, or a different currency altogether (or mix from the beginning).

With these sort of investments you are not talking about hobby miners who like to fiddle around with fans and heatsinks, and asking a friend-electrician where to put their thousands of Ampere of 400V electricity.

If Friedcat and AC can deliver <$1000/TH (deployed) in a few months down the road this has to be taken serious by large mining ops.

(Rockxie said his power consumptions are to be taken with caution, his DC circuit was built with failing components)