The fire almost completely destroyed the Bitcoin-farm capacity of 5 MW

Habré and Geektimes many people who either Mein Bitcoins, or trade them, or just interested Cryptocurrency. Maybe someone even has its own Bitcoin farm.

So, if you do not pay attention to issues of fire safety, it's time to do it. Not so long ago there was a fire on the Bitcoin farm in Thailand. It was quite a powerful 5-megawatt farm, managed Cowboyminers. Installed on a farm equipment - mainly iron from Spondoolies-Tech and Innosilicon, with a small amount of equipment and BitFury Gridseed.

Cowboyminers - a group of Europeans, constantly living in Bangkok, who decided to create a powerful farm for mining Cryptocurrency. Back in June, according to some visitors to the farm, everything was fine, then it was found about 1,000 miners, but after that it was decided to expand the farm and found still more than a thousand miners.

The fire occurred on the farm at night, when the room there were only two people. According to local media, open fire destroyed much in just 30 minutes. Of the people no one was hurt, but the equipment burned into many millions of dollars (only iron from Spondoolies-Tech destroyed 2 million).

By assumption journalists Gizmodo , the fire occurred due to fire acoustic foam (according to another version , acoustic foam helped already arisen hearth fire spread territory, touching, and other farm buildings), and indoor farm was not installed sprinkler system, which is usually installed in high-end data centers.

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Farm operators are trying to recover what was left, but it is clear that most of the equipment was destroyed. It is known that all the iron Spondoolies-Tech completely destroyed by fire. The saddest thing - anything that burned, was not insured, so that no one can claim to damages.

That's what it was:







And what's left:





Source: geektimes.ru/post/241144/