Tapping idle GPUs from home gaming machines to mining data centers
Akash Weekly - October 12th 2022 (Akash Network)
“GPUs allow us to tap into this massive deployed capital and resources, like gaming machines to powerful workstations… to data center compute that has enormous amounts of GPUs. With Ethereum mining… there was enormous infrastructure that was built for this mining use case that’s all underutilized right now, so the GPU market will allow us to untap this.” — 00:07:15
Context: Weeks after Ethereum’s Merge stranded proof-of-work GPU capacity; the recurring thesis that consumer and idle hardware becomes monetizable supply on Akash.