With many parts of Texas enduring days of temperatures well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in July, many crypto miners have shuttered operations in anticipation of the state’s energy grid being unable to meet demand.
Many crypto miners in the Lone Star State have announced they have already scaled back or shut down operations in anticipation of demand Texas’ energy grid may not be prepared to handle.
"I moved all of my mining equipment out of the house so it is no longer dependent on the cooling of my home. I put everything in the garage and adjusted core/mem to run efficient and within spec. So far, I have reached the hottest parts of the summer with no issues. I am certain that this will help my electric bill as well since there is no part of the home affected by the heat generated by GPU's."
But is it enough?-------Of course not.
Now,Single-phase, Liquid Immersion Cooling (SLIC) maybe a good choice.
Why SLIC Cools Better Than Air?
The phenomenon of "feeling" different at the same temp is really the physical manifestation of a material characteristic called "heat capacity". Think of it as "thermal mass" and the ability to "suck heat out of something". Technically, "heat capacity" is the amount of energy that you have to put into something in order to raise its temperature 1 degree. It's different for different materials.
A low heat capacity means that something gets hot with very little energy input - there's little energy stored in that hot material. Air is a good example of something with low heat capacity - just a little energy will raise the temperature of air.
A material with high heat capacity gets hotter more slowly - it's absorbing a lot of energy, and can hold it when the material is hot. Water has a high heat capacity- it takes a lot of energy input to raise the temperature of water one degree. Materials with high heat capacities are better for moving heat from one place to another. Some analogies are helpful: Let's imagine standing next to a swimming pool and that both the air and the pool water are at 60 degrees F. As you stand in 60 degree air, it's chilly, but since air doesn't have much heat capacity, the cool air doesn't "suck the heat out of you" very quickly, and your body can generate enough heat to keep you warm. If you jump into a 60 degree pool, though, even though it's the same temperature as the air, water has far higher heat capacity, and will cool you down to 60 much more quickly - quicker, for example, than your body can generate heat. Now, even materials with high heat capacity can't cool you down below ambient temperature - (your body's never going to go to 50 in this scenario), but it'll get to 60 very quickly. Dangerously quickly. I often use the analogy of sticking your arm into a 400 degree oven. You can do that, it feels hot, but it doesn't hurt your arm. But the minute you touch the baking rack, which is also at 400 degrees, then you're burned. That's because the steel rack has far higher heat capacity than the air, and "holds" more heat that then burns you when you touch it. So, electronics assemblies don't get any cooler while immersed in a liquid coolant than it does in the same temperature air, but the coolant's high heat capacity allows it to "suck the heat out" much more quickly than air can. The rapidity at which the heat is removed from the electronics doesn't have any bad effects, in fact it keeps the temperature very constant as the electronics heats up. With air cooling, the temperature of a CPU chip, for example, could swing very high as the load on the chip increases. Liquid cooling sucks up this heat more quickly than air does, and minimizes these temperature excursions. (Temperature excursions are a huge failure mechanism with integrated circuits).
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