Bitcoin enabler CryptoMine has opened a 22,000 sq ft data center in Montreal, Canada, to host the cryptocurrency mining machines that sustain the alternative electronic money system.

CryptoMine said it aims to provide colocation hosting of mining machines from a range of hardware manufacturers, including CoinTerra, Black Arrow, HashFast, Butterfly Labs, KnCMiner and Spondoolies Tech.

The service provider is one of the few world specialists in supporting cryptocurrency mining machines.

The machines are industry specific high performance computers built to perform algorithmic calculations governing the new electronic ‘cryptocurrencies’ such as Bitcoin.

CryptoMine said the volume of data needed to be mined and the velocity at which it is searched means that industrial scale power managed is called for.

This also creates a massive cooling challenge, according to the service provider.

CryptoMine currently is offers CoinTerra’s TerraMiner machines, Antminer’s S2, Spondoolies-Tech’ SP10 Dawson, the Hashfast Sierra EVO and the KnCMiner Titan.

These range in power consumption from 1 to 2.2 kW per machine.

But with customers demanding a greater range of processing power and electrical power consumption rates, it is offering new machines options.

A new range of machines with a wider range of hash rates (a measure of the ability to process code) was demanded by clients, said the service provider.

CryptoMine has announced additional platforms are to come online in the next quarter.

The service provider said it is provisioning computing hardware from Black Arrow – a Prospero X-3 with a hash rate of 2.0 TH/s (TerraHash per second), two ButterFly Labs Monarch systems, one running at 600 GH/s with the other 1 TH/s and an upgrade system from Spondoolies-Tech – the SP30 Yukon running at 6 TH/s.

The latter will be the most powerful platform yet, in terms of both processing power and electricity consumption (2.5 kW).

CryptoMine - founded by a team of software application developers, networking and data center engineers – said it is the only data center to accept Bitcoin as payment from clients.