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.
Google execs like
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.
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.
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.
Companies will never admit it. They’ll drive this shit right into the ground and keep digging
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.
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.
What are they doing with it?
Using it to run the most resistrictive and devasting surveillance state in history
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
The demand for LLM inference will drop off when people finally realise it is not the road to AGI. However there is still plenty of things GPU compute can be applied to and maybe spot prices will come down again.
It’s more likely that the demand for LLM inference will drop off only once AGI exists.
There are billions of active users already having it do everything from coming up with ideas for Christmas presents, to helping them write e-mails to clients.
That isn’t going anywhere until there’s a better option on the table. People would have already got bored and moved on if it wasn’t doing anything useful for them.
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?
