Possible data center bans incoming + tons of GPUs sitting in warehouses due to lack of power infrastructure to power them.

Perhaps a flood of 8x B300 will be homelab ready in a few months

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NitpickLawyer 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> a flood of 8x B300 will be homelab ready in a few months

Haha, that's beyond wishful thinking, I'm afraid. We're not even seeing a flood of A100s (6 yo and several generations old). Every GPU is still being squeezed right now, and the trend will probably continue for the foreseeable future.

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throwup238 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Last I checked AWS still sells EC2 instances using 2018 era GPUs. Most people underestimate just how much long tail demand there is and how long these cards last, despite the higher power consumption.

	▲	fauigerzigerk 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but if data center space gets tight, it creates an incentive to replace old inefficient models with better ones, i.e. sqeueeze more performance out of limited data center space.

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x187463 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The world is bigger than the US. If the political climate in the US obstructs the build out, the build out will occur somewhere else.

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fauigerzigerk 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I agree, but it would have to be a place with plenty of energy and the only such place outside the US is a war zone.

Perhaps one option is building data centers along with solar power plants in sunny countries that have a lot of space. I'm not sure about the water/cooling situation though.

	▲	SR2Z 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well, lots of countries have energy surpluses from hydro or cheap coal. It would certainly fit the pattern of Bitcoin farms clustering near dams.

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seviu 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s called pacing the frontier

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Drupon 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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swingandamiss 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, they'll be shipped off to Asia where technology is embraced.

	▲	DaSHacka 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The rise of China due to hand-over-fist ceeding of power and influence fueled in equal parts by the right and left is so astonishing it'll certainly go down in the history books (written in Mandarin, of course). Bonus points when the morons are doing so because they get all their political news from a Chinese platform. The [Americans] have gone insane.

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FuriouslyAdrift 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There are 300 racks of nVidia A100 servers for sale from a refurber right now on eBay...

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viccis 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Possible data center bans incoming

A lot of the data center build out has been bipartisan. Unless Dems realize they need to listen to their constituents to avoid a 2028 bloodbath (they probably won't), I wouldn't count on that to save us from RAM/GPU prices.