A mining farm is a dedicated cryptocurrency mining platform with equipment running on it. A farm can be called one or two devices, or a whole data center with thousands of ASIC miners or video cards. Often a farm is called a single mining PC on video cards, but to avoid confusion, miners call them rigs.
A farm is any number of mining devices collected in one place. The premises for a farm can be, for example, a balcony in an apartment, a separate room, a shipping container, and even a hangar with an area of thousands of square meters.
The farm can consist of any number of ASIC miners and rigs on video cards. For a household miner, these are several ASICs on the balcony, for a large company – a complex of buildings with an electrical substation, dozens of staff members and tens of thousands of ASICs.
Large mining farms are often referred to as “industrial mining”, as its structure is comparable to a manufacturing enterprise. For the organization of the work of a large farm, not only equipment and cheap electricity are important. To ensure stability, proper organization of ventilation and air conditioning, backup power supply, a waterless fire extinguishing system, constant online monitoring of all devices, physical security of the facility, and much more are required. All this significantly increases overhead costs, but helps to avoid incidents that can lead to serious accidents and business destruction.
Separately, there is the question of the interaction of farm owners with regulators and supervisory authorities. Some countries or regions introduce special electricity tariffs for miners. Countries with weak power grids (such as Iran and Abkhazia) temporarily ban industrial mining during periods of high consumption. And due to the pressure of the “environmental lobby” in the West, miners are forced to look for ways to switch to renewable energy sources.
Source: Bits
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