Wow, this is a stunning amount of efficiency progress from Bitmain and TSMC. Suggests commoditisation of ASICs isn’t as close as we thought.

Their latest machine (U3S21EXPH ) is 13J/TH and runs at 860TH/s in a 3U liquid cooled rack. 100kw server rack towers possible now. https://image.nostr.build/6070b4ecd22f00cdb6fc148e71e07e561089b2bebe71bb070f8b98f3e075e56d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/50fab8f8a1599178fd368def2b5ecfac23ab4ef49e8f26670bbff567810cd2d3.jpg