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The 12 by 60 Box: Intelliflex on Immersion Density
Chuck L’Ecuyer of CS Corporation walks through the Intelliflex IMDC: 1,152 machines and 6 megawatts on a 12-by-60-foot platform.
Twelve feet wide, sixty feet long, six megawatts. That is the footprint Chuck L’Ecuyer, CEO of CS Corporation, the home of the Intelliflex line of products, brought to the stage at Mining Disrupt Miami in June 2024.
The story starts in 2019. L’Ecuyer says he visited a crypto mining site, looked around, and told himself there had to be a better way. His answer is the IMDC 6.0, a fully integrated liquid immersion data center built on a 12 by 60 foot platform. In his words: "We could fit 1152 machines in there with 6 megawatt of density."
When the session was recorded, Bitcoin traded at sixty-one thousand, two hundred seventy-two dollars. Today it sits at eighty-two thousand, six hundred ninety-one dollars.
L’Ecuyer walked through the parts. The power comes in through what the company calls the MegaBox. "Our MegaBox is pretty much a mini substation," he said. It takes up to 69 kV on the primary side and puts out the 415 volts the miners need, with metering and protection built in. Two three-megawatt MegaBoxes feed each six-megawatt module. Inside, a power hub runs the smart PDUs, 24 to a module, and 24 immersion tanks hold the machines. A flex flow system feeds both Bitmain and MicroBT hardware.
Cooling pods sit on top of the module. They are dry coolers, made in the USA, and an automation system modulates every pump and fan speed against the outside temperature and the operator's settings.
For big sites, the company builds a Switch Gear module on the same 12 by 60 platform. One Switch Gear handles up to 48 megawatts and can feed eight of the six-megawatt modules. Line those up and one row runs 576 feet. Put eight rows side by side and L’Ecuyer's slide showed a 384 megawatt site, all tied back to the substation through eight Switch Gear feeders.
There are smaller options too: a three-megawatt half module with 576 spots, and a hybrid version with a flex space for offices or a repair center. Connecting pods, from 12 by 12 up to 12 by 60, fill in control rooms and repair shops between modules.
His pitch for the company came down to one line: "We design, build, deploy and operate our system." The shop he showed is 72,000 square feet, expanding to 126,000, and the company says its products are UL certified. He invited people to booth 369 and to a module parked outside the conference center.
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