Hilarious that you think they’re going to admit it. They’ll get bailed out and star over again with a brand new pitch.
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.
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
How much RAM are they using? Would a RAMdisk VPS make any sense?
Its more VRAM heavy servers. They’d have to take the GPUs out, or even put the whole motherboard in a new case.
Companies will never admit it. They’ll drive this shit right into the ground and keep digging
I suspect Microsoft will use them for a videogame subscription streaming service
With the direction Microsoft has taken windows the past decade or so, a GPU farm in the back room will be needed to run windows 12. Maybe that’s why everyone needs a Microsoft account to use windows these days - Microsoft is planning ahead.
Have you seen Sears?
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.
Palantir integrated police drone control network.
Auctioned off and used by startups and homelabs.
In capitalism, sustainability is not a goal.
It will be thrown in the trash, and the companies will reap big tax write-offs.
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
A write off.
Hentai.
