Bare Metal Green Infrastructure

The Problem

The Cardano network uses roughly 10,000 MWh per year to run the stake pools (https://co2pool.com/co2/). Not all of this is generated using green or renewable sources.

The Proposal Goals

Move the majority of pools over to a bare metal solution (for increased security) that are run. locally off of either community renewable or green energy. Making Cardano a truly sustainable blockchain. 

Solution

Work with community to develop an agreed level of hardware that is suitable for SPOs and future proof. Low cost and low energy system that can be readily run off of community or personal green energy. Ensure that energy usage can be monitored and reported back to the community in a dashboard for all to see. Allow for SPOs to record how they power their system and give background to their mission to further promote wider social benefits they may be having.

Schedule of work

Months 1 - 2: Project preparation, basic research and data collection, community engagement with existing bare metal operators, search for partners, awarding contracts.

Months 3 - 4: Development and discussion of results, gathering parts for prototype build, documentation of process, gather metrics suitable for dashboard, and prototype.

Months 5 - 6: Testing of hardware, presentation within the SPO community, engagement with delegators to publicise benefits

Month 6: Public launch, marketing work

Budget calculation 

Month 1 - 2:

Weekly meetings of the project group, engagement with SPOs, determine hardware list, obtain offers: $4,000

Month 3 - 4:

Weekly meetings of the project group, communication with third party services, purchase hardware parts, test and adjustment

Expenses for third-party services Web developer and database programmer.

$10,000

Month 5 - 6:

Weekly meetings of the project group, test and adjustment, communication with third party services and community, documentation: $6,000

Total: $20,000