When an AI company goes bankrupt, their hardware will be sold to anyone interested in it. My guess is, MS and Amazon will be buying a bunch of vacant datacenters within the next 10 years.
That’s enterprise hardware, so it’s not really compatible with your consumer grade gaming PC. If you’re interested in self hosting your own cloud photos and local LLMs, you might want to look into those auctions.
This, but also I think the fallout of the AI bubble popping will be different than people are envisioning. After the dot com bubble collapsed a lot of the infrastructure was sold at surplus and repurposed, but some of the infrastructure was left unused and just sat around for a while.
It’s not completely equivalent, but imo a great example of this is fiber optic. Early on, companies and governments invested in fiber optic technology in their local area to get in on the bubble hype, but after the bubble burst most of it went unused or not fully utilized in the way it was intended until recently, when Google bought various fiber optic networks around the country for Google fiber. This is the reason why in the last 10 or so years you had certain states and cities getting access to fiber connections before others.
Obviously this isn’t exactly the same, but I’ll be curious what the “fiber” of the AI bubble will be (if anything). My guess would be changes and hopeful improvements to our energy infrastructure, but time will tell.
In capitalism, sustainability is not a goal.
It will be thrown in the trash, and the companies will reap big tax write-offs.
Crypto mining. And Im sure they’re being built with this dual purpose in mind.
I think hardware as a service will be their next thing, raise the cost of parts so people buy a cheap sub then increase the aubscription year by year.
Agree. I think MS and Google selling more cheap “cloud laptops” could totally be a thing. The personal device would mostly be a screen and bare bones components
I feel like it could even be chromecast like devices which just plug into a screen and connect to server, cheap hardware sold at a loss to rope you into a sub.
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The last boom/bust cycle resulted in a lot of high tech gear getting sold off at bargain basement prices.
Good for new businesses but bad for companies like Cisco trying to sell new gear in a market flooded with cheap used gear.
A lot of that hardware is junk pretty soon anyway. Graphics cards run at full load 24/7 don’t last very long.
That’s not really accurate at all. A GPU running at full load might wear out its fan, but if it’s kept at a consistent temperature it’s not going to shorten the life by much. The stress on a GPU generally comes from either being over bolted or from the thermal expansion and shrinkage from an inconsistent temp.
This is kind of what I’m wondering about. Countless warehouses full of used half functional video cards.
I think a lot of them find their way onto eBay where they get sold to unwitting gamers.
Lol when the AI bubble pops it will be most likely destroyed to maintain artificially high hardware costs.
At least that’s why China ending crypto mining didn’t drastically reduce the price of graphics cards.
They’ll all be fried and be sent straight to landfill.
Palantir integrated police drone control network.
Companies will never admit it. They’ll drive this shit right into the ground and keep digging
I hope some of it hits the used market, so tinkerers can play with them.
But yeah, knowing them, they will probably just throw the hardware away :(
Just take a look at what Israel is doing with it and you’ll start to understand what really is going to happen here.
Hilarious that you think they’re going to admit it. They’ll get bailed out and star over again with a brand new pitch.
Solving chess
it’ll flood the 2nd market, anything that can’t be flipped past a certain point will be scrapped for recycling or just thrown away
Have you seen Sears?
