“Make sure to close the door behind you,” Mathis Schultz, the CEO of Northern Bitcoin, said to me in a near shout. As we entered the backside of the shipping container, partitioned for the ASIC miners’ exhaust, Schultz wanted to make sure the heat emitted wouldn’t mingle with the temperature-controlled front end of the shipping container.The door opened, my senses, already ringing from the blaring of the ASICs’ mechanized grind, were ignited. Like stepping from one climate zone to the next, I was greeted by a wave of hot air, the collective, arid exhaust from the shipping container’s 210 Antminer S9s.The backside of the mining rigs emit a powerful exhaust.All that heat and the cacophony came from just a fraction of the 3,250 miners Northern Bitcoin runs in 15 shipping containers. Situated in Lefdal mine — a data center located roughly 31 miles northwest of Sandane, Norway — the operation is certainly unique. Bridging two industries and centuries, the bitcoin mining farm sits in a defunct olivine mine from the ’70s.Even more serendipitous, the converted data center is powered by 100 percent renewable energy from hydroelectric plants built in the same decade. Fed by the fjords that punctuate Sandane’s mountainous landscape, hydroelectric dams provide the data center with an abundance of clean energy.For Northern Bitcoin, this means mitigating the biggest headache when it comes to scaling and operating a m... For Further Information Click on Below Button