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This large mining facility in Ontario, Canada is currently operational. The current operational capacity is 20 MW which is approximately 6,500 ASIC miners.

The mining facility is located in an existing warehouse building that was retrofitted to become a ASIC mining facility in early 2022. The first ASICs were turned on in early April 2022.

Power

This mining facility is grid-connected and is mostly powered by clean sources of power. The exact grid-mix can be found on the Ontario Government Website [provide link]. During the summer period, there has been periods of curtailment requested by IESO the grid-operator when there are hotter temperatures. During 2022 so far, there has been approximately __ hours of curtailment until now. IESO provides a monthly report at the beginning of each month which can be found on the IESO Website [provide link].

Weather and Climate

Ontario is one of the warmest region in Canada with an average daily high temperature of 12 degrees celsius. The climate is very changeable and offers varied seasons with deep winters and warm summers.

General climate & weather info (Weather data extracted from weatherspark.com): Around the Ontario facility, the summers are warm; the winters are freezing, snowy, and windy; and it is partly cloudy year round. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 19.4°F (-7°C) to 78.8°F (26°C).

The warm season lasts from 30 May to 18 September, with an average daily high temperature above 69.8°F (21°C). The hottest month of the year is July, with an average high of 78.8°F (26°C) and low of 64.4°F (18°C). The length of the day varies significantly over the course of the year from 8 hours, 59 minutes to 15 hours, 23 minutes of daylight at the peak of summer.

The cold season lasts from 4 December to 15 March, with an average daily high temperature below 39.2°F (4°C). The coldest month of the year is January, with an average low of 19.4°F (-7°C) and high of 30.2°F (-1°C).

Security piece must remain – Customer might want some assurance that the equipment is monitored 24/7

1. Size of the mining facility
2. In MW
3. In number of miners
4. Energy mix
5. Electricity Generation/supplier details – Just 100% “renewable” doesn’t mean much. We should be clear and specific. This mine gets its power from…
6. Potential for load shedding (incidents per month/year)
7. Climate & Weather
8. General climate & weather info
9. Impact of peak winter and peak summer on the mining facility
10. Heat mitigation strategies planned or already in place.
11. Construction/Online date
12. When did/will it reach full capacity
13. Plan for expansion?
14. Current end of hosting contract with the facility
15. How is the site set up?
16. Warehouse/containers/both
17. Breakdown by MW (eg. XX MW across YY containers and ZZ MW in the adjacent warehouse)
18. Miner Support Team schedule (24hrs/12hrs)
19. Day & Night team but diagnostics and repair only during day time etc.
20. Night team only
21. Miners/person or MW/person
22. Diagnostics, repairs and troubleshooting skills
23. This site has technicians who can perform most replacements: fan, PSU, control board, etc. In the future we can boast about have chip level repairs in US covered by our Service Centre.
24. We should boast about the teams that are good. Make customers feel like the equipment is in good hands.
25. If we can’t be very explicit, at least we could mention the team is experienced in running mines for the last x years. Led by….
26. Historical uptime
27. Critical piece but at the moment Foreman is more accurate than our status page uptime history.
28. So worth putting on hold until we marry the two and make our historical uptime data accurate.