New owners LLC "GARAGE-EXPLOITATION COOPERATIVE" (GEK) which PUBLIC JOINT-STOCK COMPANY "T PLUS" Viktor Vekselberg sold at the end of December, can use capacities for creation data-centers and a mining of Cryptocurrency, reports today newspaper "Kommersant" with reference to interlocutors in branch . According to official figures, at PUBLIC JOINT-STOCK COMPANY "T PLUS" acted as the buyer of an asset Simanova Nadezhda, however, according to the edition, Kolesnik Aleksey, at the end of December headed LLC "GARAGE-EXPLOITATION COOPERATIVE" became the real purchaser. Earlier he directed committee of natural resources in Ministry ecology and natural resources Republic of Tatarstan, now also is general director and the main owner (66%) LLC "NORDIKS-PERM" (trade fuel).
Kolesnik Aleksey confirmed that considers option with a mining of Cryptocurrency, but it is rather on a platform to Udmurt Republic, whereas the main project — creation data-centers. "In the long term there is an idea to develop data-center: it not only Mining. Besides there is a law Summer that information has to be stored to Russian Federation, and data-center — is the usual server room" — mister Kolesnik Aleksey told.
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of the Offer on use of the industrial enterprises to Russian Federation for a mining from representatives businesses and officials earlier repeatedly sounded. In August, 2017 of daily business newspaper "RBK daily" wrote that the farm for a mining Bitkoin can appear in a joint data-center PUBLIC JOINT-STOCK COMPANY "ROSTELECOM" and Concern "Rosenergoatom" near Kalinin nuclear power plant . Such offer was made by the Internet ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev, he for that time conducted negotiations with "Rosenergoatom".
of Requirement of mayner Bitkoin and other Cryptocurrency in electricity can reach the 140th terawatt-hours in 2018 that will make to 0,6% of world power consumption, reported daily business newspaper "RBK daily" with reference to information agency "Bloomberg" . Demand for electricity among mayner Bitkoin grew to 20,5 terawatt-hours by the end of 2017. In China electricity consumption by mayner makes 15,4 terawatt-hours that equally in about 0,2% of annual productions electricity in the country.
GEK includes Kizelovsky state district power station (Perm territory, 23,6 MWt) and the Sarapul combined heat and power plant (Udmurt Republic, 10 MWt). PUBLIC JOINT-STOCK COMPANY "T PLUS" sold stations separately: State district power station for 30 million rubles, and combined heat and power plant and city networks — for 129,3 million rubles. Sale of generation was caused by unprofitability first of all the Kizelovsky state district power station supplying with heat Gubakha.
Operational efficiency of these two stations of GEK very low — fuel consumption is 1,5 times higher than, than on the average in the Russian power supply system, reported newspaper "Kommersant" Porokhova Natalia from the ACRE. By its assessment, costs of the electric power for data-centers or a mining at these stations will be 40% lower than the prices for consumers in these regions, but are comparable with the prices for consumers in Siberia. Prospects of developments data-centers to Russian Federation are connected with growth of requirements of data storage within the country ( it is demanded by "Law Summer" ) and rather low in comparison with the world prices for the electric power (as key category of expenses).