• Steve@communick.news
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    16 hours ago

    Implicit in this prediction, is the assumption that AI data-center demand will continue that long.

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      7 hours ago

      It alao assumes that each data center will have a hardware refresh every few years to sustain demand.

      I can’t see demand surviving the necessary pricing to be profitable over time with the inital hardware, much less to pay for the inevitable refresh.

    • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
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      15 hours ago

      Even if the AI bubble burst today and we canceled all data center plans, it would take a while to pivot production back to something useable for consumers instead of highly specialized servers. Not four years but at least a couple of months.