New Breakthrough in Liquid Cooling Mining: 3MW Project Aims to Achieve 90% Power Recovery

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【Crypto World】A mining project has recently made some new moves. They partnered with Bitforest Investment to launch a 3.0 MW pilot in Manitoba, Canada. Although the scale isn’t large, the concept is quite interesting — deploying 360 liquid-cooled servers.

The key point here is: the waste heat generated from mining is recovered to power greenhouses, with a theoretical power recovery rate of up to 90%. If this can be truly achieved, it would be quite significant for the mining industry, which faces the greatest cost pressures. The project plans to run for 24 months, aiming for a stable 95% uptime, ultimately keeping the overall electricity cost at $0.035 per kWh.

Although this is still in the proof-of-concept stage, if the data turns out satisfactory, this model could be replicated in other mining farms. After all, in an industry where electricity costs are fiercely competitive, saving even a penny counts.

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SighingCashiervip
· 50m ago
90% recovery rate sounds great, but I'm worried about data inflation. Liquid cooling + waste heat utilization, this seems to be the right way to mine. Electricity is cheap over in Canada, putting this project there feels a bit like cheating... $0.035 per kWh? That’s comparable to hydropower mining, is it real? In the proof-of-concept stage, let's wait for data after 24 months, don't hype it up too early. If this model can be implemented, miners' costs could be significantly reduced, and industry reshuffling is about to begin. Using waste heat for farming, that’s a real idea, but the execution difficulty... 360 liquid-cooled servers, with this scale, there's not much to verify yet. Saving even a little helps, but the key is whether maintenance costs will eat into the profits. Interesting, but I wonder if in two years it will just become another PPT project.
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Layer2Arbitrageurvip
· 3h ago
ngl, 90% recovery sounds good on paper but show me the actual runtime data first. 24 months is long enough to expose all the edge cases nobody wants to talk about.
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GateUser-0717ab66vip
· 3h ago
A 90% recovery rate sounds good, but electricity costs in Canada are already cheap. Can this data be replicated elsewhere?
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TradFiRefugeevip
· 3h ago
90% recovery rate? Sounds impressive, but it depends on the real data after 24 months. Using waste heat to grow vegetables, I like this logic. Finally, someone thought of this idea. Liquid cooling + greenhouse cultivation, it feels like playing agricultural science fiction. The crypto world is really getting creative. 0.035 USD per kWh? If this becomes real, how will traditional mining farms survive? They hype it up during the concept validation stage. Let’s wait for the actual test data to come out. 360 liquid-cooled servers are burning money. It all depends on whether they can reduce costs later. This is the right way to mine—considering environmental protection while also making a profit. Electricity is cheap over in Manitoba, plus waste heat recovery. This combo really has some potential. It’s called innovation in a nice way, but honestly, it’s just about squeezing costs and going all out.
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rekt_but_not_brokevip
· 3h ago
90% power recovery? Sounds great, but in reality, reaching 60% would already be good. The idea of liquid cooling combined with greenhouse energy supply is indeed innovative; let's see how the data from Canada turns out. This is only 3MW, which is far from enough to demonstrate the problem; it needs to be tested in a real large-scale mining farm to be meaningful. Another concept validation... When isn't this circle about concept validation? $0.035 per kWh is indeed attractive compared to Ethereum mining costs, but the question is whether it can be maintained stably for 24 months. Using waste heat to power greenhouse vegetables is quite thoughtful, but I wonder how much efficiency loss there is. Greenhouse fertilizers? This is quite different from the mining evolution I imagined. Maintaining 360 liquid-cooled servers must be incredibly costly; don't just save on electricity and spend it all on maintenance. In the current climate of cost competition, this is indeed a direction, but don't treat us as fools and sell us hype.
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ZenZKPlayervip
· 3h ago
A 90% recovery rate sounds impressive, but I'm worried it might just be PPT mining again...
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