• tburkhol@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The GPUs they’re talking about don’t have video outputs, and I think many of them aren’t even PCIe. Even at pennies on the dollar, they’ll still be hundreds of dollars, so way easier just to get a consumer card.

    All the past infrastructure bubbles, the companies that inevitably failed at least left some usable infrastructure - rails, pipelines, dark fiber… These guys are going to crash, never pay back their loans, and the acres of datacenter, containers of GPUs, and racks of servers are just going to get recycled. It’s such shocking waste that it’s hard to comprehend.

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      2 days ago

      plus all those local governments buying into it, are going to paying out the ass too. its probably going to exist in some form as mass surveillance AI dc.

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      Hah! I had dark fiber in mind before I hit that part of your comment. Not much of value will be left after the AI implosion.