It Keeps Getting Louder - Now more than 10x the reported noise levels

​New data shows that Bitmain/Merkle Standard’s proposed Bitcoin Mining Facility in Usk could be at least 10x Louder than alleged in their Conditional Use Permit Application.
 
In the Conditional Use Permit Application CUP-2021-012, Ponderay Real Estate LLC (acting on behalf of Bitmain and Merkle Standard LLC) asserted that the noise level for their facility would be 75 dB. In our video At Least 5x Louder   Analysis of Crypto CUP Application, we presented five reasons this number was both misleading and demonstrably false, and that noise levels would be at least 5x louder.
These reasons include:
They only list the noise for a single machine, not 150 containers with 30,000 machines;
They left out the loudest pieces of equipment, and;
That the 75 dB number was itself suspect because the noise levels increase as temperature (and fan speed) increase.
 
An alert reader provided us with a  product review video from the website CryptoMinerBros.com which sells the same bitcoin mining machines that Bitmain/Merkle Standard/et al. currently has at their proposed Usk Bitcoin Mining Facility – in this case, the S19J Pro.
 
In the product review video (see the screenshot below), the reviewer reports that the noise increases to 85 dB when the miming machine is hot. That is twice as loud as the sound rating for a single mining machine reported in the CUP application and loud enough to cause hearing damage.
 
Later in the video, the reviewer comments that a single S19J Pro mining machine produces enough heat to heat his entire home. Imagine the operating temperatures inside a metal shipping container packed with 207 machines on a summer day in the sun. Running hot will be the rule, not the exception.
 
Because noise is additive, at 85 dB per machine, ten machines together will produce 95 dB of noise, which is like putting your head next to a motorcycle engine. A single container of 207 of these densely packed machines pushes the noise level to 108 dB – the same volume as a Rock Concert.
 
That is more than 10x LOUDER than the CUP application asserts!

Watch our video presentation here: At Least 5x Louder   Analysis of Crypto CUP Application