Ethereum update: Colocation Service
(This is not an ad to sell anything)
Hello folks,
I had a very difficult time finding colocation services at reasonable prices for our growing mining farms in the SouthWest of the US that would work with GPU miners and when we did find datacenters we quickly got on their nerves because we were “bad clients” that used up a lot of power in a small footprint and never needed any of their supplementary services, and ultimately were told by multiple facilities that we cannot keep scaling into more racks unless rates were hiked up to prices that were not reasonable.
We finally found a datacenter partner in Las Vegas, NV that could scale with our business and can provide high density racks (with sufficient cooling) and that was willing to provide us with meaningful scale to grow. We have consolidated most of our mining rigs to this datacenter and are exploring the idea of subleasing rack space and power to other GPU miners that don’t have our scale to strike these types of deals.
The question I have for the audience here are:
1. Do you think there is substantial interest in colocation for GPU Miners (or ASICS, I know its a dirty word in this subreddit), especially in the SouthWest of the US where residential electric prices are insanely high and climate all but ensured you need A/C cooling to maintain reasonable ambient temperatures?
2. Assuming the answer to #1 is yes, as we explore different pricing models we are looking at a fixed monthly cost per rig to cover space/cooling and a per kWh rate for the power drawn from the miner. We are looking at $150/rig/month + $0.08/kWh. Do you think this is a fair/competitive price point?
3. Outside of housing and powering the rigs, and remote hands services for occasional reboot, are there any other services that you think would be valuable to a mining colocation customer?
Thank you for your input, and again I want to reiterate this is not an ad for a sale of service, it is truly an exploration project, we are not in a position to sublease anything to anyone until we understand size of market and how to properly price it.
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