Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?

Re:Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? by AlexandrB on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @11:33AM (#40586161)

The costs are also largely being ignored at the moment. Both the obvious marginal costs (electricity, hardware for compute, dev time) and the hidden costs (flood of spam and misinformation).

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Re:Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? by Bluecobra on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @11:48AM (#40586399)

I was really surprised to read the other day that Dell isn't making money on AI servers. I played around with the server build tool on their website and was surprised to see that a H100 adds ~$50K to a server! How the heck are these companies spending $100K per server going to get back their ROI? Are all these costs going to get written off as R&D? This really seems like the dot-com days but worse somehow.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/31/dell-shares-fall-ai-servers-...

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Re:Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? by Yoric on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @11:35AM (#40586192)

Also, the environmental cost. It's hidden, but won't be forever.

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Re:Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? by russiancapybara on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @11:39AM (#40586256)

Would be awesome to have nuclear power stations dedicated to powering these data centers for inferencing.

I believe Amazon just purchased a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania for this.

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