” Bitcoin Mining Datacenters by the Megawatt
• Last edit: November 27, 2016,
This is an index of publicly known industrial-scale mining operations across the globe.
• Disclaimers:
Because I want to list as many things as possible, this thread has a low standard of proof. Some of the operators listed below may be unethical, scammy, nonexistent, or have rituals where they sacrifice innocent children–I don’t care about that, I just want to make a list.
• Note that there are likely many (secret) mines that aren’t listed here.
• Operational Mines :
• 60MW | BW/ANTPOOL | Unnamed | Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
Note: Power draw is an estimate based off their claim of 100PH, I assumed 0.6W/GH given that this was Feb 2015. Any of you guys have information about this one?
Here’s an interesting paper that explains perhaps why this large datacenter is in this region.
Source :
http://qntra.net/2015/02/inside-the-bitcoin-mine-of-antpool-bw-com/
• 40MW | BITFURY | Tbilisi Technology Park Free Industrial Zone | Tbilisi, Georgia
Source:
• 25MW | HAOBTC | Unnamed | Tibetan Autonomous Region, China
Note: Their official bitcointalk account has claimed a hashrate of 72PH and capacity of 25MW as of 2016-06-10.
Source :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1328580.msg15158126#msg15158126
• 25MW | Lee Group | Unnamed | Chengdu City, Sichuan province, China
Note: It was stated they their farm was expandable to 25MW about a year ago, so it’s likely they are around the high end of that range by now.
Source :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=934581.0
• 10MW | BITFURY | Unnamed | Gori, Georgia
Source :
• 10MW | C7 | “N-0.5 design” | Utah, USA
Source :
• 6MW | Great North Data | Lab City | Labrador City, Labrador, Canada
Source :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1328580.msg16915395#msg16915395
• >5MW | Verne Global | “Hybrid Data Center” | Kevlavik, Iceland
Note: This is where Genesis Mining runs their hardware (I think)
Source :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1328580.msg17010137#msg17010137
• 5MW | Hashrate.biz | Secret Name | Quebec, Canada
Source: PM from the owner
• 4MW | MegaBigPower | Unnamed | Washington State, USA
Note: This is the facility from this youtube video :
Note 2: Although MBP claimed to be building a 32MW and 12MW mine, they never materialized
Source :
http://megabigpower.com/themine
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/jjXXCMW.png
• 4MW | Telco 214 | Unnamed | Labrador, Canada
Note: Some napkin math with blocks found from November 13th-27th puts this miner at ~22PH/s, which makes 4MW a plausible amount of capacity.
Source :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1328580.msg17010137#msg17010137
• 3MW | Zoomhash | Unnamed | USA
Note: This may be rented space in a larger datacenter.
Source :
http://zoomhash.com/pages/hosting
• 1.3MW | ASICSPACE | Unnamed | Washington, USA
Source :
http://www.asicspace.com/pictures-of-our-data-center/
• >1MW | Great North Data | Goose Bay | Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
Source :
• >1MW | Hashplex | Unnamed | Washington/Seattle, USA (I need more data)
Source :
https://hashplex.com/frequently-asked-questions/
• >1MW | Oregon Mines | Unnamed | The Dalles, OR, USA
Source :
Bitcoin Mining Hosting – Litecoin Mining Hosting – Dash Mining Hosting – Specialty Server Hosting
• 1MW | Bitcoin ASIC Hosting | Unnamed | Douglas County, WA, USA
Note: Second site is being spun up, so they will have greater capacity in coming months.
Source :
http://www.bitcoinasichosting.com/
• 0.75MW| Toomin Brothers | Unnamed | Pacific Northwest, USA
Source :
• 0.75MW | Hashrate.biz | Secret Name | Quebec, Canada
Source: PM from the owner
• 0.64MW| JeffColo | Unnamed | Portland, OR
Source: [Citation Needed]
• 0.58MW| Cryptominer Canada | DC0001 & DC0002 | 2x in Joliette, Quebec, Canada
Source :
https://cryptominer.ca/page/hosting
Also to be added :
Cryptominer Canada run by maximeAD and the Lee Group datacenter.
I was considering adding genesis-mining but they provide no specs on their datacenter.
Dead Mines:
• 20MW | KnC | Unnamed | Boden, Sweden
Note: KnC is bankrupt. It doesn’t look like they’re finding blocks anymore, so this facility is presumed dead.
• 20MW | KnC | Boden 2 | Boden, Sweden
Note: KnC is bankrupt. It doesn’t look like they’re finding blocks anymore, so this facility is presumed dead.
Source: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/knc-miner-will-build-new-20mw-data-center-node-pole/
• 10MW | KnC | Unnamed | Boden, Sweden (probably)
Note: KnC is bankrupt. It doesn’t look like they’re finding blocks anymore, so this facility is presumed dead..
Source :
Click to access Analysis_of_Large-Scale_Bitcoin_Mining_Operations.pdf
• 10MW | BlockC | Unnamed | San Francisco, CA, USA (probably)
Note: RIP BlockC. You never proved you actually had the hashrate, but you definitely proved you couldn’t stay in business.
Source : blockc.co
• 3MW | Spondoolies/BTCS | Unnamed | North Carolina, USA
Note: RIP Spondoolies, this is probably shut down.
• TL;DR : Hashrate is concentrated in China, Georgia, the Western US, and Northeastern Canada.
But awesome list. Crazy to see how many farms there are using that much power.
Yeah, but when you get down to it 128MW are owned by one entity–which also happens to be the entity that claims to have the most efficient chips. That’s kinda scary!
• What percentage of the overall MW do you think is with home/retail miners ?
Very little. Most hobbyist miners colocate now unless they can score power for less than $0.06/USD/kwh, otherwise they save money by letting other people take care of their hardware for them. I’d say (and this is a total guess) at most 3MW are being run in homes/businesses. Everything else is probably in datacenters.
When you get down to it 128MW are owned by one entity–which also happens to be the entity that claims to have the most efficient chips. That’s kinda scary!
I find it very scary aswell they seem to be only one pumping out next gen and if they have specs that were reported they are making a killing.
Also they chances will ROI on a lot of machines before other companies even get next gen chips. So when they have ROI’ed and rest is pure profit… that is really scary as what do they do?
My fear is they sell tons of BTC and drag down price. I hope that does not happen though.
it would be nice to have some info, on the maximum megawatt that their location can handle, so they will be forced in the end to split in two or more location
which means better decentralization
I’m pretty sure that MegaBigPower’s mine has grown quite a bit, or they’ve added additional facilities.
Zoomhash also has a biggish mine in the same area, given they’re shipping the used A2 units they have for sale out of there. No clue on size though.
If it’s still owned by the same group of people it’s not decentralized.
I’m pretty sure that MegaBigPower’s mine has grown quite a bit, or they’ve added additional facilities.
Turns out that MBP and hashplex share space in this datacenter :
http://www.serverfarmrealty.com/data-centers/titan/
Assuming 60% is used for hosted mining hardware, and the rest is used for other clients–4MW.
It seems to line up with this next article I found which is the motherlode :
It reveals that MBP was building a 23MW center and was eyeing another location with 12MW capacity. Another (unlisted so far) NA based hosting company in that article that has 4.5MW of capacity.
Zoomhash also has a biggish mine in the same area, given they’re shipping the used A2 units they have for sale out of there. No clue on size though.
http://zoomhash.com/pages/hosting
That’s another 3MW accounted for.
KNC are a reasonably open company about their mine rollout plans. Another 20 MW rollout.
Also recent Sam Cole interview talking in detail about mining and KNCs search for cheap mining locations.
Washington State has a stack of miners to the extent it is impacting the cheap electricity.
And who knows what is in China. Bitfury are likely to be mining on their 16nm chip as fast as they can get them.
Just a comment. A nominal X Megwatt Bitcoin Data Centre is only likely to run at the most 60% of capacity for actual mining. There are overheads (cooling etc) and electrical systems and transformers are normally kept at under 80% of capacity.
There’s also Allinvain with Cryptoboreas in Labrador. Don’t know the size of their datacenter though.
http://www.cryptominer.ca – Bitcoin Miner Hosting Solutions
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