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3eb7988a1663 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX S-1

I thought I saw a report from someone at Google saying that they were still running 7+ year old hardware because of demand. Even if it is not state of the art, if it generates more than the electricity costs, keep it running until it dies.

WarmWash 4 months ago | [–]

Efficiency gains have been so intense that old hardware is still viable for serving brand new mid size models.

throwaway85825 4 months ago | [–]

Likely legacy products are running on the old chips because the newer generations are capacity constrained.

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