A mining farm is a power contract wearing a building. Everything else — containers, racks, even the miners — is replaceable. Here's how professionals take one apart before buying.
Start where the value lives. Demand the actual power purchase agreement, not a summary: rate, term, escalation clauses, take-or-pay minimums, termination rights and counterparty credit. Verify the interconnection: approved capacity in writing from the utility, transformer ownership, and any pending grid studies. A '25 MW site' with 8 MW energized and 17 MW 'in process' is an 8 MW site with a story attached.
Walk the electrical chain from substation to PDU: transformer condition and age, switchgear quality, cable sizing, grounding. Then the thermal design — measured container/building temperatures under full load in the hottest month, not nameplate claims. Ask for the maintenance log. A facility that can't produce one is telling you how it's been run.
Confirm land title or lease assignability, environmental and noise permits, import duty status on the equipment, and litigation history. The classic red flags: seller urgency tied to an 'expiring' power deal, revenue figures quoted in bull-market months only, and resistance to independent inspection. We run this entire process for buyers in every farm transaction we broker — from a 5 MW container site to 100 MW campuses — because the discount for skipping it always costs more than the diligence.