• BananaTrifleViolin
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    10 hours ago

    Scarcity manufactured by the AI “boom”. When the AI bubble pops, expect a huge slump in hardware prices as companies try to offload huge stockpiles of worthless RAM, CPUs and GPUs.

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      8 hours ago

      That’s what I am saving up for, actually. The numbers of surplussed high-end compute just in my sparsely populated region could probably let me open my own datacentre.

      • 4am@lemmy.zip
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        4 hours ago

        Your house will be underwater, but damn the gaming will be good