BitFury Eyes Bitcoin Mining Advantage With Immersion Cooling Acquisition
BitFury Group has signed an agreement to acquire Allied Control, a Hong Kong-based tech startup that provides cooling systems for supercomputing and data center applications. The move will make Allied Control a subsidiary and in-house special department of the bitcoin mining and transaction processing company. The deal has not yet been closed and is subject to customary conditions. Allied specializes in two-phase immersion thermal management platforms - a technology that could perhaps match the power and energy challenges posed by large-scale bitcoin mining operations. BitFury told....
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Bitcoin mining companies are now increasingly experimenting with immersion cooling, a form of cooling that allows them to get more hashpower out of existing miners. According to industry insiders, this cooling alternative will become mainstream in the future, as leading companies are already taking advantage and retrofitting these cooling devices to existing mining operations.
Immersion Cooling Getting Attention From Miners
Miners are experimenting with an alternative and lesser employed method for maintaining their equipment, called immersion cooling. This cooling process....
Valery Vavilov, BitFury CEO, recently told me in a one on one interview at TNABC (The North American Bitcoin Conference) in Miami that he believes in the technology of the blockchain. He sees the infrastructure that has been built up around it as amazing with endless opportunities. He told CCN that BitFury is making some moves to be able to make transaction processing (mining) more efficient and widespread beyond just making faster chips. In a move that goes along with that goal, BitFury is acquiring Allied Control; a top immersion cooling company based in Hong Kong. This move will allow....
BitFury, the third-largest mining operation by total hashrate, announced in December that it will be mass-producing its custom 16nm ASIC chip and selling the chip directly to consumers. “Each chip will achieve 40-55 GH/s at the highest possible efficiency of 0.055-0.07 J/GH. From 55 GH/s to 180 GH/s the chop follows nearly linear slop of efficiency from ~0.06 J/GH to 0.2 J/GH,” said Valery Vavilov, CEO of BitFury, in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine . Further, the 16nm chip is capable of running with a power supply voltage of 0.35 V. The cooling mechanism used with these mining chips is....
In an attempt to further decrease energy costs and its impact on the environment, BitFury announced that it was launching the world's largest two-phase immersion cooling (2PIC) project at its new data center in the Republic of Georgia. By using the technology from Allied Control, bought in January, and the Novec 7100 Engineered Fluid from industrial giant 3M, the company is hoping to optimize its operations and make them more green. The firm intends on using 3M's fluid to cool more than 40 megawatts of processing power. "The maintenance cost of traditional low-cost air cooling systems is....
Bitcoin's biggest miner, BitFury, says it is launching the world's largest two-phase immersion cooling project. As part of its new $100m data centre in the Republic of Georgia, the firm will cool more than 40MW of processing power in 3M's engineered 'Novec' fluid. Masterminded by Allied Control, the immersion cooling startup BitFury acquired in January, the project will help the miner reduce energy costs as it continues its rapid expansion. BitFury CEO Valery Vavilov said in a statement: "We've taken many steps to optimize our infrastructure for securing the blockchain and blockchain....