A 2.5MW Bitcoin Mine in the heart of the city
Our team repurposed a vacant building in a bustling downtown into a quiet, urban bitcoin mine.
Services Provided
- Design
- Project & Vendor Management
- Procurement
- Deployment & Commissioning
- 24/7 Monitoring
- Ongoing Data Center Operations
Data Center Details
- 2.5MW
- Immersion Cooled
- Grid Powered
- Miners: S9s Upgraded to S17+
- Digital Currencies: BTC
- Uptime: 99.9%
Partners
- City of Albany, GA
- AMG Engineering
- Randy Hendry Contracting (RHC), Inc.
- Georgia Electric
Project Time
2017-2021. Initial concept and kicking off the private public partnership through six immersion design iterations.
About The Project
Getting a Great Power Deal
The City of Albany, GA had a unique problem to solve- they owned their own power utility services and wanted to generate more revenue by turning once vacant buildings into commercial spaces which were back on the tax grid. The City of Albany partnered with us by providing a power price low enough to set up an on-grid data center running Bitcoin miners right in the downtown area.
R&D of 2.5MW
We entered into our contract in 2017 and began designing and building our 1st generation immersion cooling design to house miners. Through trial and error, we fine-tuned our design to keep 2.5MW of S9 immersion miners cooled and hashing throughout the hot, humid South Georgia summer.
Continuous Improvement
Over the next 4 years, this data center became our Research & Design lab where we continued to refine our immersion designs, upgraded to S17+ miners, weathered the 2020 halving event and trained local data center technicians.
Investing in the Local Economy
Through this project, we learned the power of being a great partner to the community, building relationships with the City of Albany and hiring from within the surrounding area. We increased our impact to the community through buying local whenever possible.
The Impact
Our team built our own R&D lab at this facility, testing out 6 iterations of designs and learning along the way. We were able to partner with the City of Albany to get our building back on the tax grid and keep our Opex costs low with an incredible power deal. Our learnings on this project set us up to scale 10x this immersion design and move our operations to our next site, a 25MW on-grid facility in Fort Stockton, Texas.