There’s a ton of new units on the market, including new players like Auradine. But how do these units actually hold up when deployed to the field and under harsh environments? We brought on Brad Cuddy of Cholla Energy to walk us through his experience working with the units. We also discuss alternative units like Bitmain and MicroBT, dry cooling, hydro vs. immersion and various other topics relating to technical Bitcoin mining. Lastly, we finish with a conversation on the Texas Bitcoin mining landscape including 

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Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:01 Brad's background

05:53 Types of ASIC cooling

09:25 Bitmain vs MicroBT

12:20 Dry cooling

16:34 Hydro vs immersion

21:38 Immersion form factor challenges

22:26 MicroBT immersion deployment

24:21 Cost difference

25:42 Cooling fluid & thermodynamics

28:24 Fluid longevity

29:14 Auradine

32:32 Firmware & chip uptime

34:47 Auradine conclusion

35:35 What cooling is best?

37:14 Extreme temps

39:23 Curtailing with hydro units

42:21 New Bitmain unit

45:34 Bitmain changing PDUs

48:13 Curtailing (4CP)

49:15 Curtailing (PPA)

51:16 Ancillary grid services

52:43 4CP operations

55:10 Renewable & Texas grid

58:56 Future of solar

1:03:52 Miners, data centers & interconnections

1:06:22 Texas' isolated grid

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