• ch00f@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Every video card that’s plugged into an AI data center starts losing money the second it’s powered on. It might actually be more profitable to mine crypto.

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      16 days ago

      Profitable is a stretch. Arguably them running with no workload will mean the card lives longer overall compared to mining which has known to cause hardware burnout in GPUs.