points by dididi27484sd 4 hours ago | 0 comments
Has anyone calculated the mining capacity of the AI data centre buildouts? Presumably the big firms could out-mine mining firms if they chose to?
[–] trevinhofmann 4 hours ago
[–] ashkankiani 3 hours ago
That's only if they target Bitcoin and not some other coin which doesn't have an ASIC and has a GPU-friendly hash.
[–] 0c3ca83 3 hours ago
If they had built out the same number of ASICs and GPUs, what you said would make sense.
The Bitcoin mining network is somewhere around 1000 EH/s, while the (AI assisted research ahead) 34.5 million H100-equivalent GPUs globally would yield about 0.435 EH/s. They'd represent less than 0.05% of the Bitcoin network.