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KeplerBoy • yesterday at 4:16 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Isn't electricity a pretty major factor even over such a short fraction of the hardware's lifetime?


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christina97 • yesterday at 5:36 PM

No, the absolute max power draw of these cards is like 1.5 kW, say 3 kW per card with mediocre cooling attached to a server. DCs get power in the 10c/kWh range at most. So 30c/card/hour, peanuts. And this is the most power hungry card at full tilt with mediocre cooling efficiency.

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