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the datacenter has a fixed cost for power, industrial power is not consumer power especially at large scale. Scale really kicks in if you own your power plant (ex: hydro, wind, solar).

Data centres are more complicated than that.

For an example, even if you have a fixed power budget at the data centre level, you still have opportunity costs: if you turn some unused GPUs off, you can run other things hotter.




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