This DC cost $100 million. Not exactly pocket change. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;bitfury-details-100-million-georgia-data-center&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;bitfury-details-100-million-georgia-...</a><p>Plus, with BitFury online, the cost of a 51% attack just raised to $200 million.<p>The only reason it is (currently, for a short time) hypothetically possible to 51%-attack the network with a budget in the low hundreds of million of dollars is because most of the miners are not using such efficient 16 nm chips. As the market migrate to these last generation chips, expect the cost to increase to $1+ billion in the next year.