Episode notes
There’s a ton of new units on the market, including new players like Auradine. But how do these units actually hold up when deployed to the field and under harsh environments? We brought on Brad Cuddy of Cholla Energy to walk us through his experience working with the units. We also discuss alternative units like Bitmain and MicroBT, dry cooling, hydro vs. immersion and various other topics relating to technical Bitcoin mining. Lastly, we finish with a conversation on the Texas Bitcoin mining landscape including
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:01 Brad's background
05:53 Types of ASIC cooling
09:25 Bitmain vs MicroBT
12:20 Dry cooling
16:34 Hydro vs immersion
21:38 Immersion form factor challenges
22:26 MicroBT immersion deployment
24:21 Cost difference
25:42 Cooling fluid & thermodynamics
28:24 Fluid longevity
29:14 Auradine
32:32 Firmware & chip uptime
34:47 Auradine conclusion
35:35 What cooling is best?
37:14 Extreme temps
39:23 Curtailing with hydro units
42:21 New Bitmain unit
45:34 Bitmain changing PDUs
48:13 Curtailing (4CP)
49:15 Curtailing (PPA)
51:16 Ancillary grid services
52:43 4CP operations
55:10 Renewable & Texas grid
58:56 Future of solar
1:03:52 Miners, data centers & interconnections
1:06:22 Texas' isolated grid
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