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by wmf 1862 days ago
Chia plotting is forbidden on all SSD and NVMe powered instances

Translation: Scaleway didn't take SSD wear into account when designing their cloud.

Chia farming is allowed on Scaleway Object Storage providing prior request has been both made and authorized by our sales team

Translation: They can't expand their object storage fast enough to keep up with demand.

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> Translation: Scaleway didn't take SSD wear into account when designing their cloud.

I don't think many cloud providers expect all their disks to fail every 1-3 months, which is what happens when you mine Chia on a SSD/NVMe.

Yup, all cloud (well, all rental) business relies on rented resources to not be 100% utilised. Oversubscription is how they can offer prices cheaper than buying the resource yourself.