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by roberte3 4100 days ago
Also the cost of the server hardware/rack is a fraction of the cost of the electrical and cooling system that is around it.

If I setup my co-location facility to run all Mac Mini equivalents (cool and they sip electricity) and some random person ships say 10 bitcoin miners, with 100 un-cooled video cards, that is going to seriously mess with my electrical and cooling setup.