if someone comes up with an alternative way to use a bunch of that infrastructure to make money, I bet they could get a lot of business when the AI bubble pops and suddenly these datacenters are desperate to find a use for themselves
I believe that’s pretty much what happened after the dot-com crash. A lot of fiber was laid during the bubble, it went dormant after the crash, but it was useful afterward as the internet continued growing.
In a small, anecdotal way, I can say with confidence that the level of fiber trenching that happened (in a major metro area) from late 1999 through 2002 was on a whole other level.
Trillions of dollars worth of compute mining dogecoin
You mean like a crazy ai surveillance program? I take it with a grain of salt but I heard ppl say that’s how they caught Luigi. They have some super secret prototype program “eye in the sky” thing and they just said it was a mc d’s worker as cover.
Even if that doesn’t exist yet in the USA, it’s definitely in the UK with all their CCTV stuff.
And we know US law enforcement can use things like Ring doorbells.
Oh, they totally will. It’ll be another website boom. A lot of the big web presences will be damaged by the bust and hosting costs will fall through the floor. Less barrier to entry for making your little website and some portion of those will become problematicly large due to cheap cost driving bad design and we’ll go through the third or fourth round of this.
Or, for deepest irony, some of the most optimally located datacenters could be converted into steel mills and industrial bakeries.
So you’re saying mining crypto is gonna come back into fashion?
No shit
I believe most of the companies are doing it to inflate their share prices.
Everything will be fine as long as they create digital god. Just gotta keep the plates spinning for a few more years… yeah?
One day we’ll read some of these comments and laugh at how shortsighted they were.
Of course we’ll probably have to read them on a manuscript or smeared on a wall with feces because all the world’s resources will be used by the huge datacenters that power our AI overlords
So then we’re going to drive down the cost of building & developing infrastructure, right?
Based on the type of AI models IBM has published, they are betting on smaller, specialized models that can run locally or cheaper in a data center. Their strategy seems to be similar to that of thr Chinese, just for different reasons.
I wish i knew more about the guts of LLMs because I keep thinking it must be easier to optimize them than to put data centers into space.
Just ask for more tax breaks. poof Problem gone.
Now guess where that money comes from?
Don’t worry consumers will pay for all their poor decisions.
