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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Processing power a mining operation controls, the higher its chances of winning a chunk of those millions. The Ordos mine accounts for over 4% of the processing power on the bitcoin network—a huge amount for a single facility.Quartz visited the mine in Ordos on Aug. 11.The Bitmain mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, has eight buildings containing mining machines. One of them is dedicated to litecoin and seven mine bitcoins. An additional building is inactive.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzRacks of litecoin-mining machines in the Bitmain unit dedicated to litecoin.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzPower cords and their fuse box inside a bitcoin mining unit.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzRacks of bitcoin-mining machines inside a mining facility.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzLeftover tubing and cables lying on the ground between two mining units.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzA bitcoin mining machine with its battery on a shelf.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzA worker monitors operating status of bitcoin-mining machines.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzWorkers clean the shelves of bitcoin-mining machines.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzIndustrial suction blower fans can be found all along the side of the mining units. They’re used to increase the airflow inside the building and lower the temperature.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzThe administrative office of the main building.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzPacking materials from mining devices fill up a warehouse on site.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzA worker fixes a component on a mining machine.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzWorkers prepare to bring fixed machines back to the mines.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzThe exterior of one of the mining units.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzA worker monitors operating status of a machine.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzThe massive switch to one of the many power transformers on the mine. These are hosted in buildings separate from the mining machines.Image: Aurelien Foucault for QuartzA set of keys used to get
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