Just as a data point it's not impossible to do. GE Aerospace,  Rolls-Royce,  Pratt & Whitney and others all have jet engine test facilities that you cannot hear a 100,000 lbf engine running full throttle from outside the building. Now, is the cost of doing something like that worth it to a miner? Probably not. But don't say it can't be done. -Dave That's a good point, but those engines don't need to run 24/7/365, you don't have a dozen engines running at the same time and place, and the building has 4 walls, so soundproofing is very easy when cooling isn't an issue, with mining, it's a whole different level, you are basically operating with only 2 full walls, if you sum the remaining of the intake and exhaust walls maybe you get 3 walls at best. As silly as it sounds, it's a lot easier to silence a fighter jet engine than to silence a miner. yeah but some containers properly done are pretty quiet. texas is hot and dry.  the container we switched to has a water wall which really helps cooling. some where I have a photo of it on this site. if all they used were these containers sound would not be 103db these containers can do .6 megawatts. that means they would need 500 containers. we got ours on a fire sale about 25k so thats 12.5 million and a fucking constant lake of water as one container uses 100gallons a day. thats 50,000 gallons of water for 500 :hundred containers. so serious money spent to cool and manage sound.   300 mega watt plant is fucking huge. as a mega watt will be 250 s21s so 300 x 250 = 75,000 s21s which is 15,000,000 th 15,000.      ph 15.             eh about 2.5% of the whole network.
Just as a data point it's not impossible to do. GE Aerospace,  Rolls-Royce,  Pratt & Whitney and others all have jet engine test facilities that you cannot hear a 100,000 lbf engine running full throttle from outside the building. Now, is the cost of doing something like that worth it to a miner? Probably not. But don't say it can't be done. -Dave That's a good point, but those engines don't need to run 24/7/365, you don't have a dozen engines running at the same time and place, and the building has 4 walls, so soundproofing is very easy when cooling isn't an issue, with mining, it's a whole different level, you are basically operating with only 2 full walls, if you sum the remaining of the intake and exhaust walls maybe you get 3 walls at best. As silly as it sounds, it's a lot easier to silence a fighter jet engine than to silence a miner. yeah but some containers properly done are pretty quiet. texas is hot and dry.  the container we switched to has a water wall which really helps cooling. some where I have a photo of it on this site. if all they used were these containers sound would not be 103db these containers can do .6 megawatts. that means they would need 500 containers. we got ours on a fire sale about 25k so thats 12.5 million and a fucking constant lake of water as one container uses 100gallons a day. thats 50,000 gallons of water for 500 :hundred containers. so serious money spent to cool and manage sound.   300 mega watt plant is fucking huge. as a mega watt will be 250 s21s so 300 x 250 = 75,000 s21s which is 15,000,000 th 15,000.      ph 15.             eh about 2.5% of the whole network.

Just as a data point it's not impossible to do. GE Aerospace,  Rolls-Royce,  Pratt & Whitney and others all have jet engine test facilities that you cannot hear a 100,000 lbf engine running full throttle from outside the building. Now, is the cost of doing something like that worth it to a miner? Probably not. But don't say it can't be done. -Dave That's a good point, but those engines don't need to run 24/7/365, you don't have a dozen engines running at the same time and place, and the building has 4 walls, so soundproofing is very easy when cooling isn't an issue, with mining, it's a whole different level, you are basically operating with only 2 full walls, if you sum the remaining of the intake and exhaust walls maybe you get 3 walls at best. As silly as it sounds, it's a lot easier to silence a fighter jet engine than to silence a miner. yeah but some containers properly done are pretty quiet. texas is hot and dry.  the container we switched to has a water wall which really helps cooling. some where I have a photo of it on this site. if all they used were these containers sound would not be 103db these containers can do .6 megawatts. that means they would need 500 containers. we got ours on a fire sale about 25k so thats 12.5 million and a fucking constant lake of water as one container uses 100gallons a day. thats 50,000 gallons of water for 500 :hundred containers. so serious money spent to cool and manage sound.   300 mega watt plant is fucking huge. as a mega watt will be 250 s21s so 300 x 250 = 75,000 s21s which is 15,000,000 th 15,000.      ph 15.             eh about 2.5% of the whole network.

Just as a data point it's not impossible to do. GE Aerospace,  Rolls-Royce,  Pratt & Whitney and others all have jet engine test facilities that you cannot hear a 100,000 lbf engine running full throttle from outside the building. Now, is the cost of doing something like that worth it to a miner? Probably not. But don't say it can't be done. -Dave That's a good point, but those engines don't need to run 24/7/365, you don't have a dozen engines running at the same time and place, and the building has 4 walls, so soundproofing is very easy when cooling isn't an issue, with mining, it's a whole different level, you are basically operating with only 2 full walls, if you sum the remaining of the intake and exhaust walls maybe you get 3 walls at best. As silly as it sounds, it's a lot easier to silence a fighter jet engine than to silence a miner. yeah but some containers properly done are pretty quiet. texas is hot and dry.  the container we switched to has a water wall which really helps cooling. some where I have a photo of it on this site. if all they used were these containers sound would not be 103db these containers can do .6 megawatts. that means they would need 500 containers. we got ours on a fire sale about 25k so thats 12.5 million and a fucking constant lake of water as one container uses 100gallons a day. thats 50,000 gallons of water for 500 :hundred containers. so serious money spent to cool and manage sound.   300 mega watt plant is fucking huge. as a mega watt will be 250 s21s so 300 x 250 = 75,000 s21s which is 15,000,000 th 15,000.      ph 15.             eh about 2.5% of the whole network.