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Bitcoin Miners Flush with Chips Are Pivoting to AI in Search of New Riches (singularityhub.com)
1 point by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



It's not about the chips, but about the facilities:

> Converting a bitcoin mine into an AI training cluster isn’t a straight swap. AI training is typically done on GPUs while bitcoin mining uses specialized mining chips from Bitmain. But often, it’s not so much the chips AI companies are after, but the infrastructure and power access the mine has already set up.




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