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by DaedalusII 60 days ago
i suspect they get cheap off peak electricity and compute is cheaper at those times
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That's not really how datacenter power works. It's usually a bulk buy with a 95th percentile usage.
I think it's a lot simpler than that. At peak, gpus are all running hot. During low volume, they aren't.