I am C. Edward Kelso, and this is your inside mining minute. CNBC profiled Nick Sears. He was 17 years old when he helped build a mining farm in Dallesport, Washington. Two years later, and the kid now oversees a hydro-powered data center with 4,500 ASICs. Sears actually lives on campus in a sound-locked room so that he doesn’t hear the machines when he closes his door. “I don’t think about going to college at all,” he told CNBC, “just pursuing further knowledge in the repairs of the miners.” He credits his mining rig repair knowledge to online training courses run by Chinese engineers. The farm is directly adjacent to a nearby Dam, a source of power Sears says is “cheap, renewable, and very abundant.” He makes $54,000 a year, plus full health insurance, which is paid for by the company -- not bad for a teenager. As always, the Inside Mining Minute is brought to you by your friends at bitdeer.com.