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what will happen to all the datacenters when the bubble bursts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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More and more mainstream analysts are identifying the coming AI crash, which is a good indication that it will happen soon.

So, what happens to all the data centers? They are already built but probably very expensive to maintain. Will many of them just be abandoned? Bought up by cloud computing companies? Scammers? Crypto miners? Can they be parted out and sold off piecemeal?

Will they be put to some productive use, or just become massive e-waste sites left to the locals to deal with?

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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Press X to doubt

[–] Virtvirt588@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, these cards will most likely be in pieces rather than reused by people.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

It's also just that local AI is not worth the time and energy unless you're a prick with too much money and incoherent ideology

[–] Senal@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Incoherent ideology ?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think that means a dictator with a speech impediment.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago

I like the joke

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

There's a few people who are like:

AI bad, cause environmental, capitalism, and training data being based on spyware
but if I run local AI, those magically all stop being true, because I think it hard enough

[–] Senal@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago

Ah, yeah, I've seen that.

There are also people who want to run locally for other reasons as well.

Privacy being a big one, but there are others.

I'm not sure what the ratios are though.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that be an inconsistent ideology?

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Same thing

[–] Senal@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago

Can be synonymous, isn't always.

Though my question was about what you thought rather than the word choice.