How will that work, exactly? The chip makers are going to have a list of approved "cloud providers" and they will refuse to sell to anyone else?

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coliveira 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Cloud providers will use cheap investment capital to buy chips at increasing prices, while the public will be economically forced to get computational services from these cloud providers. After a few years, most software will work only when connected to cloud infrastructure, either for performance or for "safety" reasons. We're already seeing this with AI.

	▲	vbezhenar 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Cloud was there for many years and it's not that cheap, compared to ordinary servers you can buy. It's not clear how anything will change in the future.
	▲	Qem 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Because of this I hope the current AI fad is a bubble and it bursts soon. So instead of cheap investment drying up the market for individual consumers, we'll have lots of used corporate hardware selling at scrap prices to end users.
	▲	Yoric 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		aka "return of the Minitel"

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