Hut 8 mining facility operating at 15% of expected hash rate due to electrical problems | coindesk JAPAN

Canada’s Hut 8 Mining said in May that its Drumheller, Alberta mining facility was operating at 15% of its set hashrate due to an electrical issue and was expected to be back up in 10 to 12 weeks. announced on the 9th.

The cryptocurrency mining company, which is in the process of one of the industry’s most significant mergers with Bitcoin, first revealed the issue in March.

“High energy input levels” to mining machines are causing “equipment failures,” while rising energy prices are creating “additional headwinds,” the company said. Hut 8 has introduced firmware that lowers the voltage of the power supply, to repair the machine and increase the number of staff.

CoinDesk reached out to Hut 8 for additional information about the Drumheller mining facility but did not receive a response.

The Drumheller mining facility is expected to account for 0.9 exahash/second (EH/s) of Hut 8’s computing power. The combined install hashrate for the two Alberta sites was 2.6EH/s at the end of April. The company’s Medicine Hat facility in the state said it had “an all-time high occupancy rate” of 1.72 EH/s in March.

Hut 8 also had to shut down its third site in North Bay, Ontario, and move 7,000 employees to Medicine Hat in mid-November due to a dispute with a power company. . To date, Hut 8 has not found a way to resume operations at the facility.

｜Translation: coindesk JAPAN
｜Editing: Toshihiko Inoue
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｜Original: Hut 8’s Alberta Bitcoin Mine Running at 15% Installed Hashrate Due to Electrical Issues