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q3k
7 months ago
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xAI joins SpaceX
Cooling and maintenance (part swaps, etc.) are one of many obvious reasons why this is bullshit.
Doesn't stop grifters, tough.
spullara
7 months ago
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in actual datacenters you often don't even bother swapping parts and just let things die in place until you replace whole racks
q3k
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Not my experience at a hyperscaler, at least a while back. It definitely made financial sense to swap a small part to get a ~50-100k$ server's capacity back online.
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Doesn't stop grifters, tough.