What is an Immersion Cooling Container?

What is an Immersion Cooling Container?

It is essentially a plug-and-play, factory-prefabricated data center unit that fully submerges thousands of Bitcoin mining rigs in a specialized non-conductive cooling fluid, all integrated within a standard shipping container. This design seamlessly combines the cutting-edge technology of “immersion cooling” with the convenience of a “modular data center.”

Core Working Principle

Complete Immersion: All heat-generating components inside the miners (primarily ASIC chips) are directly submerged in engineered coolant featuring high insulation and thermal mass.

Direct Thermal Contact: Heat transfers directly from the chips to the coolant, bypassing the multiple layers involved in traditional air cooling—such as heat sinks, thermal paste, and air—resulting in extremely high thermal efficiency.

Circulating Heat Dissipation:

Heat-absorbed warm coolant is pumped to the container's integrated heat exchanger system.

Within the exchanger, the coolant's heat is transferred to a secondary cooling circuit (typically a water-glycol solution).

Heat from the secondary circuit is ultimately dissipated into the external environment via a dry cooler (air cooler) mounted atop the container.

The cooled insulating fluid then recirculates to continue cooling the mining rigs.

Typical System Configuration

A complete immersion cooling container typically includes:

Container Structure: Reinforced and insulated housing.

Miner Immersion Tank: Sealed tank housing miners and coolant.

Dielectric Coolant: Specialized single-phase or two-phase immersion coolant.

Pumping and Piping System: For coolant circulation.

Secondary Cooling System: Plate heat exchanger, water pump, and secondary coolant.

Outdoor Dry Cooler: Dissipates residual heat into the atmosphere.

Power Distribution Unit: High-voltage DC power distribution for efficient electricity supply.

Monitoring System: Real-time monitoring of temperature, flow rate, liquid level, power consumption, and computing power.

Core Value and Advantages for Large-Scale Miners

For large-scale miners pursuing economies of scale and minimal operating costs, this solution offers disruptive advantages:

1. Exceptional Thermal Efficiency and Computing Density

Enables Overclocking: Immersion cooling consistently maintains chip temperatures far below air-cooled levels, allowing miners to safely overclock equipment and boost computing output by 20-30% without hardware damage.

Ultra-high-density deployment: A single 40-foot container can house over 5,000 high-end mining rigs, achieving power densities exceeding 40kW per cabinet—dozens of times higher than traditional data centers.

2. Substantially reduced operational costs, particularly electricity expenses

Eliminates fan energy consumption: Mining rig fans are removed or disabled, saving approximately 5-10% of total power consumption.

Enhanced Energy Efficiency: Lower chip operating temperatures slightly improve mining energy efficiency ratios.

Reduced PUE: The system's Power Usage Effectiveness approaches the ideal 1.0, meaning nearly all power is directed toward computation rather than cooling.

3. Significantly extend hardware lifespan and reliability

Eliminate environmental hazards: Mining rigs are completely isolated from oxygen, moisture, and dust, fundamentally preventing corrosion, dust accumulation, and condensation issues.

Stable operating temperature: Avoids “thermal stress” caused by frequent thermal expansion and contraction in air-cooled systems, drastically reducing motherboard solder joint failures and chip damage.

Expected to double the lifespan of mining rigs.

4. Ultimate Deployment Flexibility and Speed

Plug-and-Mine: Containers undergo full factory integration and testing. Upon arrival at the site, simply connect a power cable and network cable to begin operation, reducing deployment time from months to weeks.

Minimal Site Requirements: Eliminates the need for costly traditional factory construction, enabling deployment in harsh environments like outdoors, deserts, or oil fields.

Easy Relocation: When electricity costs or policies change, the entire mining facility can be loaded onto trucks or ships and relocated to any powered location worldwide.

5. Noise and Heat Reuse

Zero Noise Pollution: Completely eliminates the significant fan noise issues of traditional mining facilities.

Waste Heat Recovery Potential: Generated low-to-medium temperature hot water can be utilized for district heating, greenhouse agriculture, industrial processing, and more, creating additional revenue streams.