It ’s 2014 , and this is what a excavation accident look like . A monolithic fire reportedly smash out at a Bitcoin minelaying facility in Thailand last month , waste all three of its buildings and possibly millions of dollars in hardware . The fervour might just be a wakeup call to all the startups trying to mine Bitcoin on the chinchy .
item of the fire are sketchy , thoughlocal medium reported flamesraging through a storage warehouse full of servers near Bangkok on October 14 . This hebdomad , a photo of the ravaging bulge out up on the forum BitcoinTalk , which key out the facility as one owned by the excavation operative Cowboyminers . allot to Coindesk , Cowboyminers are a collective of European expat based in Bangkok .
Both Cowboyminers and Spondoolies - Tech , the company that made much of the mining computer hardware in the warehouse , havepopped up in the BitcoinTalk threadto hash out the fire . It seems like no one was hurt , but the equipment was uninsured , so ouch .
What we still do n’t have it off is what take up the fervor . Spondoolies - Tech commentedthat the “ buildup was definitely not according to US galvanizing codification , ” though Cowboyminersdenied that the electrical wiring caused the ardour . We ’ve reach out for any additional details .
A exposure of the quickness before the fervidness . BitcoinTalk
In any sheath , the fervency highlights the possible pitfalls for any Bitcoin minelaying startup . Bitcoin mining ’s appeal is its relative simplicity — you just need computing power . But dress up a facility is more complicated than throwing a bunch of hardware together in a way . Every item of the traditional data center is design with cool down in mind , from the arrangement of vents to thehot aisle / cold aislelayout of the equipment .
And regardless of how the flaming started at the Thai facility , it clearly disperse , possiblybecause of a flammable acoustical froth . A traditional datacenter would have also had sprinklers — or in fancy iterations , gun fire extinguishing systems — that detected smoke or heat ahead of time on to minimize the legal injury . Of course , these system of rules do n’t come sleazy .
excavation currency may no longer involve citizenry , but it still does involvemonster machines — machine that are very expensive and very destructible . [ Bitcoin Talk , Coindesk , Data Center Knowledge ]
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