I’m kinda looking forward to the collapse of the Ai bubble.
Once upon a time, a lot of telecom bubble startups went under and left behind lots of dark fiber optic cable that others snatched up for far less than the capital cost of construction. But eventually, over subsequent decades, most of it was put into use. I expect these AI data centers will be similar, except a bunch of them are being built in stupid ways like with their own on site electricity generation.
I’m not that excited about what people will do with all of the super cheap bankruptcy auction surplus (formerly AI) data compute capacity. But at least it will be a novel problem.
And the depreciation of hardware is magnitudes faster than fiver optic cables. You can’t slowly snatch up hardware over the course of a decade. In a decade it would be electronic scrap.
I’m kinda looking forward to the collapse of the Ai bubble.
Once upon a time, a lot of telecom bubble startups went under and left behind lots of dark fiber optic cable that others snatched up for far less than the capital cost of construction. But eventually, over subsequent decades, most of it was put into use. I expect these AI data centers will be similar, except a bunch of them are being built in stupid ways like with their own on site electricity generation.
I’m not that excited about what people will do with all of the super cheap bankruptcy auction surplus (formerly AI) data compute capacity. But at least it will be a novel problem.
except the AI chips and equipment are pratically useless for commercial use.
And the depreciation of hardware is magnitudes faster than fiver optic cables. You can’t slowly snatch up hardware over the course of a decade. In a decade it would be electronic scrap.