Headline 5 Years From Now: A Texas Town's Misery Underscores the Impact of Training Large Language Models Across the U.S.
All joking aside - I'm surprised more of these operations aren't switching to "legitimate" computing as a service. They've apparently optimized for running these workloads at low cost so why not just offer gpus-(or whatever the state of the art is for mining)-as-a-service?
They haven't fully depreciated the ASICs yet and they'd take a loss by selling them so they pretty much have to keep mining. AI wouldn't be a bad idea after mining collapses.
To be fair LLMs have already shown more productive use in the last couple of years than BTC has through its existence, which means applications are more likely to be run by responsible companies that will try and find better ways to get the power they need.
All joking aside - I'm surprised more of these operations aren't switching to "legitimate" computing as a service. They've apparently optimized for running these workloads at low cost so why not just offer gpus-(or whatever the state of the art is for mining)-as-a-service?