[3eb7988a1663]

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]

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

[throwaway85825]

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