• chaosCruiser@futurology.today
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    5 hours ago

    When an AI company goes bankrupt, their hardware will be sold to anyone interested in it. My guess is, MS and Amazon will be buying a bunch of vacant datacenters within the next 10 years.

    That’s enterprise hardware, so it’s not really compatible with your consumer grade gaming PC. If you’re interested in self hosting your own cloud photos and local LLMs, you might want to look into those auctions.

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      2 hours ago

      This, but also I think the fallout of the AI bubble popping will be different than people are envisioning. After the dot com bubble collapsed a lot of the infrastructure was sold at surplus and repurposed, but some of the infrastructure was left unused and just sat around for a while.

      It’s not completely equivalent, but imo a great example of this is fiber optic. Early on, companies and governments invested in fiber optic technology in their local area to get in on the bubble hype, but after the bubble burst most of it went unused or not fully utilized in the way it was intended until recently, when Google bought various fiber optic networks around the country for Google fiber. This is the reason why in the last 10 or so years you had certain states and cities getting access to fiber connections before others.

      Obviously this isn’t exactly the same, but I’ll be curious what the “fiber” of the AI bubble will be (if anything). My guess would be changes and hopeful improvements to our energy infrastructure, but time will tell.