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 it is to be mentioned that mining facilities are made up of very powerful computers for mining cryptos like Bitcoin.
Regular computers are not capable of such mining tasks without the addition of powerful GPUs. The stolen one latest technology equipments estimated to be worth close to $2 million. So far 11 people have been arrested for the thefts – including security staff – but the equipment has not been found.
According to Visir, the damage of 2 million caused only concerns the theft of the equipment, since the data was stored in 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 into a energy from renewable sources 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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