• reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    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?

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      2 days ago

      I haven’t done the math, but you are forgetting the massive tax breaks for “job creation” and subsidizing the energy cost across the population around you. That’s gotta help the profitability

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      Doubtful. Crypto mining is insanely optimized. Hardware value depreciation alone would kill profitability. We’re talking 20k chips having to compete with $200 consumer GPUs