And data centers are practically free to build, are welcomed everywhere, cost little to run, and never need to have their infrastructure upgraded!

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anamax 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Google hasn't retired any of its now ten-year-old V1 TPUs or any of the subsequent generations so it's unclear that AI infrastructure "needs" upgrades.

Of course, Google could be wrong about the economics of running old AI processors. Or maybe TPUs are special.

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appplication 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I do wonder how much of their inference is running on 10-year old TPUs. I’d imagine not much, if only because 10 years ago the justification for massive compute was quite different than today.

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