CityNews reported that a cryptocurrency mining server farm in Chiang Mai, Thailand burst into flames on the morning of December 3.
The resulting fire reportedly caused roughly $60,000 (2 million baht) worth of damage. However, Mae Ping Police said there was no one in the building at the time, so hopefully, the only hardships incurred by the incident are financial.
The fire destroyed 72 servers; however, it’s not clear if that’s all of the servers in the building or just the ones affected by the flames. The key takeaway is that authorities “believed that the office was mining cryptocurrencies.”
The report doesn’t identify the equipment used in the server farm or what cryptocurrency might have been mined. Crypto mining is pretty much always a power-hungry process, though, so the details probably aren’t critical.
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