| ▲ | skywhopper a day ago | |
The “contents” represent the majority of the cost and meaningful functionality of what we call a “datacenter”. Those contents will not last for “real estate” debt timelines. | ||
| ▲ | chaos_emergent 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Right but their payback period is insanely short - a $5M GB200 NVL72 cluster is expected to generate $75M in revenue over 3 years for inference providers. That's a 3 month payback period. AND - they're operating well past their estimated service lifetime. | ||
| ▲ | underlipton 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Chances they're planning on replacing personal, local compute with time-sharing on data center hardware that's too outmoded for AI...? You know, since they sunk the consumer component market for the next half-decade. | ||