Nobody was in the building when the three-story data center in Chiang Mai caught fire on December 3th, and the fire was quickly contained by firefighters. Before that, the damage could spread to nearby buildings. But, according to ChiangMaiCity Life.com, 72 servers were destroyed in the fire, a record value of estimated two million baht (approximately $60,000). The initial news report doesn’t recognize the servers explicitly as crypto mining computers, and the eagle-eyed internet users noticed the burned-out husks of the servers in one photo resemble an eagle-based rig. In fact, all of the servers near this location, acquating numbers and a huge amount of heat, are most likely to be high on the list of suspects. Cryptocurrency Mining uses advanced computer equipment to validate the transaction of existing coins and generate new ones in a decentralized system using cryptography instead of conventional economic institutions. These Bitcoins are often criticized as merely commoditized means of storing wealth instead of viable alternatives to existing currency systems. The huge amount of electricity needed to keep these systems running and generate speculative value is becoming an ecological nightmare. Let this teach the gamers and cryptomineers everywhere. You must keep in mind that you want better ventilation and cooling.
