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Fuel for rent: Harnessing idle GPU power can drive a greener tech revolution
- Unused computing power has been identified as one of the world's most pressing sustainability problems, leading to a build up of e-waste and unnecessarily high carbon emissions.
- Around 50% of the computing power from the $1tn spent on hardware in the IT industry every year is thought to be sitting idle.
- Blockchain technology is presenting an opportunity to decentralise the market for GPUs, with providers able to offer up such idle resources to companies and developers that may need them and receive revenue from it. Those in need of such resources can take advantage of the distribution on offer instead of investing in new infrastructure.
- This system leads, in turn, to wider distribution of computing workloads which can be more effectively matched to low-energy environments, reducing overall energy usage by the sector.
- Sustainability measures are often viewed as a compromise for innovation in tech, but decentralised GPU rental defies this notion. Affordable, high-performance options may assist smaller enterprises in particular and improve the ideas pipeline in the sector.
- A transition towards this sector would demand changes of both mindset and policy, but if data centres keep consuming electricity at the current or increased rate, other sustainability attempts could be pointless.
- Tech has the opportunity to change the conversation and lead the way in reducing e-waste and facilitating a collaborative vision of sustainability.
- As sustainability continues to be prioritized, there is a need to adopt productive solutions that can readdress the inefficiencies within existing infrastructure.
- Decentralized approaches, such as blockchain, offer a huge opportunity to minimise the environmental toll associated with these inefficiencies.
- A future where innovation and sustainability go hand in hand is possible if the sector rethinks how it uses its resources and makes a change.
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