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Re:Flex your computing power! by kalleboo on Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:34AM (#12224618)
If you cut through all the abstractions, in the end what you're selling them is electricity, right?
Re:Flex your computing power! by DevNullDevice on Thursday August 04, 2016 @09:07AM (#12225201)
I have a bunch of unused CPU time on my virtualization cluster. I wonder how the power delta for full-utilization would work with the pay...
Re:Flex your computing power! by glastra on Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:45AM (#12224657)
And, depending on where you live, most probably at a loss. Here in Spain electricity is so expensive that this is probably a very bad idea.
Re:Flex your computing power! by hkjgkjy on Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:45AM (#12224856)
So teenage gamers who live with their parents and don't pay for power.
Re:Flex your computing power! by eumoria on Thursday August 04, 2016 @08:26AM (#12225020)
Or people using company workstations to siphon dollars out of electric bills. This is why bitcoin mining quickly became uneconomical unless you can get energy free or on the super cheap.
Re:Flex your computing power! by trymas on Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:39AM (#12224639)
Yup. It looks like that. You pay electricity bill for them and they get the coins.
Re:Flex your computing power! by suchflex on Thursday August 04, 2016 @10:34AM (#12225767)
Our current Beta Users earning $10+ per week reported not noticing any changes in their power bills. We advise everyone running the SuchFlex Desktop App to keep an eye on their electricity costs and to communicate any significant spikes.
Re:Flex your computing power! by dharma1 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:05AM (#12225969)
wow, your beta users have invented GPUs that don't use electricity ;)