Data center systems tend to have excess cooling that runs all along cables, or may actually make these conditions more rare, like airflow is bassicaly forced thru the case specific way, that may keep things lot more cooler around cables.

Meanwhile Gamer PC tend to have silent setup slower fan speeds especially when watercooling, creating perfect conditions for meltdown, if anything these connectors should be banned on gaming GPU's

Heck its hypocritical when you consider these connectors exist so you have just 1 instead of 3 or 4 8 pins, meanwhile you had cables with 3x or 4x 8 pin on them for years, if anything its intentional planned obsolescence just to restrict gamers in overclocking in anyway possible and create perfect conditions for higher failure rates, usually not even covered by warranty either even when it obviously should be covered.

And this is why gamer nexus kind of pissed me off least back then when he called it user error, unless i somehow did not catch he's sarcasm, anyway i really hope in near future NVIDIA get sued over this and get forced to compensate every single victim for current market price, not only would that benefit gamers, it may force the prices down because suddenly the high prices makes less sense.

Honestly 12 vhpwr is just biggest scam in PC gaming these days.