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Data Centers, Crypto Miners, and Gamers Are All Battling for Semiconductors

Odd Lots

CHAPTER

Is There a Proof of Work?

Andke: There's this like weird, like positive feedback loop that emerges. So you buy hardware to mind file coin, but then be able to plug your hardware into the network and actually, you don't use it, you also have to buy the coin itself. Andke: We build large, like multipetabite level storage clusters in each of our data centers. The demand for chea, for hard drives with che is twofold, right? You really need like high speed n v and me or s s d disks that are local to your c p. Lie: I didn't expect to be getting dragged into chia by the problems i was having acquiring things last night

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