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You are underestimating the amount of heat. 800A will produce a fifth of a megawatt. The air conditioner needed to extract that would fill half the room and use 200 amps itself, wasting much of the revenue from the mining. Actually there is no need for aircon, a big fan will do. Big, in this case, meaning like an aircraft propeller.
To give you a sense of scale, when the Antminer S9 was launched, I planned to heat our house by mining. The S9 uses 1400W and produces 14TH/s i.e.100mJ/GH. We have an old, draughty 4-bedroom house which in winter needs 10-12kW for normal occupancy. I planned to supply up to 8.4kW continuously with 6 Antminers and the rest from gas under thermostatic control, as the boiler would still be operating to heat the water. That's 36A for our house. You want to pack up to 22 times that into one room?!
But, having prepared the acoustic enclosure and ducted fans etc, the bottom fell out of the market and it was not cost effective to run the miners at GBP 0.14kWh. Looking at current Aus residential electricity prices I am surprised it is profitable now. As for the electrical installation you would need to get a quote from the power company. Depending on location it could be tens of thousands of dollars to have a suitable 3-phase supply put in. The actual wiring in the house is simple enough.
To give you a sense of scale, when the Antminer S9 was launched, I planned to heat our house by mining. The S9 uses 1400W and produces 14TH/s i.e.100mJ/GH. We have an old, draughty 4-bedroom house which in winter needs 10-12kW for normal occupancy. I planned to supply up to 8.4kW continuously with 6 Antminers and the rest from gas under thermostatic control, as the boiler would still be operating to heat the water. That's 36A for our house. You want to pack up to 22 times that into one room?!
But, having prepared the acoustic enclosure and ducted fans etc, the bottom fell out of the market and it was not cost effective to run the miners at GBP 0.14kWh. Looking at current Aus residential electricity prices I am surprised it is profitable now. As for the electrical installation you would need to get a quote from the power company. Depending on location it could be tens of thousands of dollars to have a suitable 3-phase supply put in. The actual wiring in the house is simple enough.
