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Blockchain has higher compute density. Nobody was bitching when the miners built out their datacenters.
by kevin_thibedeau 3mo ago
Blockchain has higher compute density. Nobody was bitching when the miners built out their datacenters.
- dgacmu 3mo agoThe mining datacenters beat the AI datacenters to the punch on that, actually: https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/bitcoin-mining-noise-drives-neighbors-nuts-giant-dentist-drill-that-wont-stop-11636730904 https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/bitcoin-mining-noise-driv...
- alightsoul 3mo agoSince they don't need a lot of bandwidth they prefer to build out in the middle of nowhere. Ai data centers and data centers In general can't do that cheaply because they need higher bandwidth so they need to be closer to fiber optic lines which are often close to communities