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fedecaccia • today at 1:36 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The cost of electricity is (almost) negligible compared to the cost of having GPUs sitting idle. Electricity from fuel cells can be twice as expensive, but even then, it represents only about an extra ~15% of the amortization cost associated with keeping the GPU hardware idle.


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simiones • today at 2:33 PM

That's not an operating cost, it's capital cost.

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