Jonathan Schofield @urlyman@mastodon.social
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We’re taking

1. the *most extreme purity* ever engineered in a mass production context and…

2. pushing it into a *rapidly degrading environment* and…

3. building out an entire economy on new levels of *waste* (which feeds back on 2)

“The utilization rates of GPUs for AI workloads in a datacenter run by cloud service providers is between 60% and 70%. With such utilization rates, a GPU will typically survive between one and two years, three years at the most”

tomshardware.com/pc-components

Datacenter GPU service life can be surprisingly short — only one to three years is expected according to unnamed Google architect

Depending on the workload and utilization rate, of course.

www.tomshardware.com · Tom's Hardware

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