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AI's Economics Don't Make Sense (www.wheresyoured.at)
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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I hope Rimu can figure out how to make Piefed run on GPUs because we are absolutely going to have to bail out these tech companies when the AI bubble pops, and when we do we’re gonna nationalize these shitty data centers and turn them into the biggest fediverse deployment you’ve ever seen (I’m mostly joking. Mostly).

[–] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

I vote we give it to PeerTube, video hosting is so resource intensive but there's so much potential good content to be liberated from YouTube.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Assuming any of the proposed data centers, even the mentioned 15GW's worth that are "under construction," ever actually get built. Unfortunately it looks like we're steering more toward another 1929 than another 1999.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

it looks like we’re steering more toward another 1929 than another 1999

What really needs to happen is another 1789.

[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

We should let them fail and be happy that home lab users will be getting a massive discount.

Also, crypto will be back as those people use similar resources. So crypto will be cheaper to mine. Hard to say if that will make it worth more or less. Crypto’s its own ponzi scheme waiting to collapse.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 points 3 months ago

They'll shred them before they let us have them

Additionally, they're hillariously power intensive. you'd need to get 6-7 full racks worth of it together to make it work and when it does it blows through 130KW a rack.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

I can't wait for crypto mining to be the (ear)bleeding edge once again.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 3 points 3 months ago

My greedy fingers are poised on ebay for the great datacenter clearance sale.