I’m not up on ROI for non-asic mining anymore, but I’d be interested to know if this would be economical for these centres. When I used to mine ethereum on 27 Rx 580 8GB, I had to flash them with different bios to get them to be profitable.
Then the heat. I had them in a separate building on 60A panel and turning on the lights was a 50/50 that the breaker would trip.
Would running crypto on GPUs geared for AI be worth the extra power draw?
ASIC mining took over GPU mining in efficiency ages ago and wouldn't make sense.
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.
The Bitcoin network adjusts its difficulty based on the amount of computing power available so that the discover rate is relatively constant, around every ten minutes.
Adding more compute power without an increase in regular currency value per Bitcoin will just make it less likely to break even.
Not saying it couldn't happen, but the odds of it making enough money at scale and without asic mining gear seems unlikely.
I don't know about other cryptocurrencies though - they might have different designs that are more amenable to clandestine shenanigans.
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