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amluto 4 days ago

On the bright side, if lots of power capacity is added and most of the GPUs end up idle, then there might be cheap power available for other uses.

jazzyjackson 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Power generation is not a monolithic enterprise. If more supply is built than needed, certain suppliers will go bankrupt.

ogaj 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

They may, but that doesn’t mean that the capacity disappears. It may require some assumptions about USG willingness to backstop an acquisition but it’s not a significant leap to think that the generation capacity remains in (more capable?) hands.

mcny 4 days ago | parent [-]

Speaking of capacity, what happened to all the "dark fiber" that was supposedly built for Internet 2 or whatever? The fiber doesn't go away just because a bubble burst, right?

HPsquared 4 days ago | parent [-]

Railways are similar, many were built by investors who lost all their investment but the railway is still there.

lucianbr 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What are the chances suppliers will go bankrupt but the plants get sold and still produce power?

NewJazz 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not if Ellison trickles it out for maximum profit.

holoduke 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And computing in general gets cheaper.

lawlessone 4 days ago | parent [-]

heating our homes next winter with clusters of h100s