This completely murders the idea of a mining farm and completely murders the idea of being able to centralize in a place like that.
Does it? Why wouldn’t there be economies of scale and advantages of locating near cheap electricity for Monero miners? Why are a million shelf-CPUs quieter to cool than the same computing power in ASICs?
It’s true that Monero miners would benefit from cheaper electricity. I think more than anything it has to do with the power efficiency. A big warehouse full of CPUs would not be any more efficient than Uncle Bob mining on his gaming PC in his bedroom.
As for the noise level, I don’t think cooling a million CPUs would be any quieter than cooling ASIC chips. I think it’s mainly the fact that it’s so distributed.
Uncle Bob might have one or two computers mining in his bedroom, which put off a little bit of noise, but nothing horrible. Where these companies have racks and racks of ASIC chips all in the same place, amplifying the noise upon each other.
Does it? Why wouldn’t there be economies of scale and advantages of locating near cheap electricity for Monero miners? Why are a million shelf-CPUs quieter to cool than the same computing power in ASICs?
It’s true that Monero miners would benefit from cheaper electricity. I think more than anything it has to do with the power efficiency. A big warehouse full of CPUs would not be any more efficient than Uncle Bob mining on his gaming PC in his bedroom.
As for the noise level, I don’t think cooling a million CPUs would be any quieter than cooling ASIC chips. I think it’s mainly the fact that it’s so distributed.
Uncle Bob might have one or two computers mining in his bedroom, which put off a little bit of noise, but nothing horrible. Where these companies have racks and racks of ASIC chips all in the same place, amplifying the noise upon each other.