Alibaba report says reserved GPU capacity was quietly diverted to crypto mining
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-07-29
Alibaba’s tech report reportedly says some provisioned GPU capacity was quietly repurposed for cryptocurrency mining, diverting compute away from training.
The quote surfaced in a reposted thread and points to an operational abuse issue inside allocated AI infrastructure: compute reserved for model training being siphoned off for mining.
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