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[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If a crash dumps hardware on the market, I bet someone will find a way to make use of it. But I don't think it will devalue, local models work and are useful, so if most datacenters closed tomorrow, I bet they'd be able to sell that hardware at decent prices to all sorts of companies.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think if that happens, much stock will be intentionally destroyed before anything like that can happen.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

What motivation do people in the DC and AI sector have to fuck with consumer prices? It's not like NVidia still owns that silicon or something.