I can't wait for all the data center fire-sales when the whole "AI" boom goes bust. Ebay is going to be flooded with tech.

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aleph_minus_one a day ago | parent [-]

> I can't wait for all the data center fire-sales when the whole "AI" boom goes bust. Ebay is going to be flooded with tech.

I think a lot of the hardware of these "AI" servers will rather get re-purposes for more "ordinary" cloud applications. So I don't think your scenario will happen.

	▲	trympet 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yep, hyperscalers go on and on about the "fungible" datacenter capacity in their earning calls as a hedge for a sudden decrease in demand. I could see a scenario where there would be an abundance of GPU capacity, but I’m sure we’d find uses for those too. For instance, there are classic data retrieval workloads that can be accelerated using GPUs.