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Top Economist Warns That AI Data Center Investments Are "Digital Lettuce" That's Already Starting to Wilt (futurism.com)
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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And for the counter argument of the dot com bubble where they spent enormous amounts of money laying fibre (so called dark fibre), the lifetime of fibre is effectively infinite and can be used to this day. Whereas these GPUs either

  1. burn out from continual use or
  2. are superseded by another model within a few years (see A100->H100->blackwell) where it becomes economically infeasible to run older models