There's no further elaboration on what "datacenter" means here, and it's a fair argument to say that a closet with one consumer-GPU-enriched PC is not a "datacenter deployment". The odds that Nvidia would pursue a claim against an individual or small business who used it that way is infinitesimal.
So both the ethical issue (it's a fair-if-debatable read of the clause) and the practical legal issue (Nvidia wouldn't bother to argue either way) seem to say one needn't worry about.
The clause is there to deter at-scale commercial service providers from buying up the consumer card market.
> No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.
- https://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownloads/licence.php?l...
There's no further elaboration on what "datacenter" means here, and it's a fair argument to say that a closet with one consumer-GPU-enriched PC is not a "datacenter deployment". The odds that Nvidia would pursue a claim against an individual or small business who used it that way is infinitesimal.
So both the ethical issue (it's a fair-if-debatable read of the clause) and the practical legal issue (Nvidia wouldn't bother to argue either way) seem to say one needn't worry about.
The clause is there to deter at-scale commercial service providers from buying up the consumer card market.