NVIDIA changes the EULAs of GeForce and TITAN products, to prevent companies from buying graphics from these families and installing them in data centers instead of specific and more expensive solutions, such as the Tesla or Quadro.
Graphics cards, although it may not seem like it, are developed for certain uses, although there is a certain versatility between products. NVIDIA, one of the largest manufacturers of graphics cards in the market, has updated the end user license agreement or EULA for its acronym in English, of GeForce software, where they will change a very important point and that is that it is clearly specified that these drivers They cannot be installed in the Data Center, so this possibility is withdrawn from the license of this software and this is very relevant.
NVIDIA is quite annoyed, with the fact that graphic cards from the GeForce and TITAN families are used, instead of those intended for Data Centers, such as the Tesla or the Quadro, which are more efficient, but also much more expensive. This forces the Data Center not to use products intended for 'gaming' and to bet on more expensive solutions from the company or to go directly to its competition and look for something that suits the needs, which will not be easy. Those who make use of GeForce products for cryptocurrency mining are not included in this change in the EULA.
This measure is already affected, since the Japanese company Sakura Internet has the largest Data Center in Japan, based in this case on NVIDIA TITAN X graphics cards, to which, from NVIDIA itself, an email has been sent to stop using these graphics cards. Sakura has already communicated that the servers that make use of Quad GPUs based on the TITAN X are disconnected for the moment, while they migrate to the Tesla V100, Tesla P100 or Quadro solutions to get going. It is possible that other companies are not so 'good' and have a legal battle or they go through everything and hire engineers to update the drivers. This disruption of service could cost you dearly if a customer turns up and doesn't go through the hoop.
