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didgetmastertoday at 2:23 AM3 repliesview on HN

GPUs have been in high demand since cryptocurrency became a thing? Are you saying that something built for AI can't be used for other workloads?


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DrewADesigntoday at 2:38 AM

This strikes me as a combination of semantics and false equivalence. You might as well argue that a new crowd of people illegally dirt-biking in a public park isn’t a meaningful change because people with baby strollers are have also technically been violating the “no vehicles” sign for years.

essephtoday at 3:03 AM

Not nearly with this density and power.

The power an "AI data center uses" in a single rack used to be, or is still in many cases, the power draw of an entire room or even floor.

Going from a few megawatts to ~10GW.

pishpashtoday at 2:34 AM

Did crypto workload ever take over an entire data center?

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