TECHNOLOGY
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Azure Datacenter Architecture with Mark Russinovich
phase liquid cooling solutions just starting to appear on the market , eventually settling on two-phase immersion liquid cooling for his fledgling company ’ s first operation . The 500 kilowatt installation - Hong Kong ’ s first ever crypto mine - came online later that year , followed up by Allied Control ’ s second facility in 2014 . The second site won multiple awards from the Hong Kong government and other agencies for being the most efficient data centre in all of Hong Kong . As a result , Allied Control was acquired in 2015 by Bitfury , one of the world ’ s leading international crypto miners .
Bitfury , Capes explains , “ looked at it as a technology acquisition . They went in fullbore , building multiple sites using Allied Control ’ s technology . They built a 40 MW site in the Republic of Georgia , and then a 120 MW site in Azerbaijan , which still stand as the largest liquid-cooled data centres anywhere in the world .”
He adds : “ When Bitfury was deploying these sights around 2018 , they were starting to see a lot of the same trends in the market that I was seeing personally . Machine learning , AI , higher chip power , higher chip density - it was all driving up
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