Criminals have managed to steal about 600 mining servers from data centers in Iceland. Theft announced during the weekend, the Associated Press, which, according to the authorities, is one of the largest ever in Iceland.
Here we should mention that the mining facilities are made up of very powerful computers for the mining cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
Normal computers are not capable of such mining tasks without the addition of powerful GPUs. The stolen equipment is estimated to be worth close to $ 2 million. So far 11 people have been arrested for the thefts - including security personnel, but the equipment has not been found.
According to Visir, the damage of the 2 million caused is only related to the theft of the equipment, since the data was stored on other other systems.
Let's say that servers removed from data center installations can generate more revenue by extracting instead of being sold as stolen goods.
However, the power required to operate these servers as mining tools could be a way of discovering the perpetrators.
The climate of Iceland and the cheap access in renewable energy have made the country a large data center and data centers a very popular business model.
Hydro, solar and wind power reduce the cost of data center operation, making mining much cheaper.
Olafur police officer Helgi Kjartansson said the thefts, which took place in December and January at various data centers, showed a "highly organized crime".
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